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birthday

  • want my Ur

    Today, the day before I turn 48, sitting in the Motor Vehicles Administration, I realized it’s been over four long years since I moved to Southern Oregon. A serendipitous calling brought me here and a painful incident a couple of years later had me yearning to go back home, to Maryland. And yet I’m still Read more

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  • embarrassing birthday

    I turned 45 today. Didn’t wake up feeling any different. But then when I got to school and was surrounded by the exuberance and energy of pimpled youth, I began to feel every year turn into a stone around my neck. To make it worse at half time, someone in the basketball team got the Read more

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