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A few are funny. Others aren’t.
Occasionally, they’re both.
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Hindsight Can Be a Rather Smart Old Bitch
She has the considerable advantage of knowing how everything turned out, then sits there wondering how anyone could have been so spectacularly careless. I look back at the young woman I once was and sometimes wonder what the hell she…
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“If it weren’t for these fucking shoes…” Mila thought. It was midafternoon. Julia had gone out, and Mila could not wait to slip out of the house to visit the kids from la quinta. She ran out as fast as…
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It was a school day. There was barely any cash, so most days I either had to walk or sneak through the back door of a bus. We had been staying at Dora’s house, well into the better part of…
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