I lost my job yesterday. It’s not a huge job, mind you. I’ve been working on and off at our local children’s art studio for five years. Jill and I started working together after she allowed me to host a Kyle Vincent concert at her studio in late 2006. I didn’t know her then; a [...]
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“How’s it looking out there these days?” Mr. H Dennis asked me over a glass of white zinfandel at our favorite meeting place. “No luck, so far,” I said glumly. “It’s so frustrating to invest all of this time and there’s just no way of knowing if I’m missing anything. You really do seem to [...]
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My girlfriend Dawn had moved back to Michigan. She had I had had a huge fight during our senior year of high school. It was completely my fault, as I recall, though I don’t really recall the details. We had been as close as two friends could be since sixth grade; spending overnights at each [...]
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It didn’t take long to convince my mother that we had to let Dawn stay with us until her parents figured out what was going on with their living situation. We hauled the extra twin bed from the basement up to my room and rearranged the furniture to fit. We moved Dawn over to our [...]
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They knew it was coming. And so did I. Dawn and I were spending much more time at my house rather than her own. Things were getting creepier there; her parents were always edgy and angry about this or that. It was a crap shoot as to whether the power or the phone would be [...]
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Everyone at school knew about my crush on Rick Springfield. My close friends knew that I was actually writing a novel about him, but even my arms’ length acquaintances knew about my fandom. Lots of other girls had the exact same crush, and so it was something to share and have in common with other [...]
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My mother had a thing against MTV. It was weird, because we had HBO and sometimes they would show all manner of R ratedness, and she didn’t seem concerned at all about trying to block that from our impressionable eyes when she wasn’t at home. But she somehow took issue with tight leathered, bare chested [...]
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My mother’s unemployment nearing the year mark when the office space that she was using for her freelance lawyering was finally able to be occupied by a rent paying tenant. She had been able to make the mortgage and her car payment with the work she had done there, and had made some good contacts. [...]
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