December 2009
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The End, "The Gift" →
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Merry Christmas
According to my mother, I’m a bad older sister and a disappointment as a daughter.
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Every year it’s the same. Every year we buy presents and spend too much money...
– Victoria Comella, A Christmas Tradition, Lost and Found
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Hate the bus
professionaldilettante:
Girl next to me is doing Christmas? cards and taking up all the space.
First off, it’s 12/23. Are you hand delivering them?
Second, these two seats are not that big.
Third, you’re not that skinny.
Guess I will get out my laptop and reclaim some space.
Heh heh.
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The Lovely Bones: Another Survivor Silenced
katoleary:
thedivineash:
I was really excited about this movie. Like, REALLY excited. The book was phenomenal and then followed up with Lucky, which is the true account of the author’s rape and recovery, it made the experience of the novel all that more powerful.
As she was writing The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold realized that she was writing about her sexual assault and the feelings of...
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Sudden thought: “Dexter” makes more sense than my real life. I don’t know.
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Last night I hung out with a bunch of girls who I haven’t seen in months. I would call most of the girls only very loosely as “friends” - I like some of them, but haven’t really hung out with any outside of the large group setting. I assume that they all knew about my dad, from our mutual friend who is also part of the group (and a very close friend.) Still, it was...
The Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009 :: Culture... →
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The Office is The Most Depressing Show on...
goldenfiddle:
By Meghan Keane
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You can’t go back. You can only move forward.
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Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
They remember the...
– Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
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My mother keeps my father’s picture beside her pillow. Before she goes to sleep, she tells him, “Come back. Come to my dreams.”
She hates to sleep alone. She’s always been afraid of the dark.