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“Because once you depart from this one-way road of life, there is just no getting back on.”

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How the Rich Get Richer

It made me think I maybe don't belong in a coffee shop where the customers have Prada purses. It made me think I should maybe dump that high-priced decaf espresso and walk right over to my old haunt Dunkin' Donuts up Main Street a ways.

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Let's Go Get Shocked

I'm busy trying to retrieve the exact right phrases from my 4 years of teenage French so I can say to the waiter what I would like to eat without having him think I'm saying that I desire him,

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Sick Tyke Expert?

20minutes later, I tiptoed back to the bedroom and found it… empty. I looked in the bathroom: empty. Ditto the whole second floor and the floors both above and below it. Had I lost the child entirely?

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For Cal

It was when I was 8 and my mother was 50 that my slightly older sister Nan and I gathered courage for the big question. “Where is OUR father?” we asked her. “I don't know,” she told us truthfully.

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Honey, We're ALL Dying

I’m sick. I might be dying. I think I have scabies, what with these weird little bumps on my skin. But really, it could be anything. Also, my stomach hurts, so I think I have appendicitis. Did I say I was sick? I might be dying.

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Prince and Michael

Sexuality is a mystery to us all. It's the sacred fire, the thing that brings the babies - or doesn’t – and in his celebration of it, Prince gave a whole lot of people the courage to be who they are .

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