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I am so lucky. I have so many wonderful friends who get me. Friends who really know me. And whole-heartedly embrace me. Life is hard for me right now. And my friends are stepping up and saying: let me help. It’s amazing. I feel so blessed.
Unlikely as it seems, Cher’s take on [...]
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Sam is gone. We got the call while we were traveling to my parents house. He just died. No warning. No notice.
The vet called and left a message: Sam is failing. I tried to call him back but the clinic was closed. I tried for 30 minutes, hoping they would pick [...]
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My family.
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I’m home for the weekend. I don’t know wny I still call it home; I haven’t lived here since 1988. And then only briefly for the previous 6 years. But it’s home. Always will be. And we’ve sold it.
Dad is struggling now. Getting [...]
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I flew home from Los Angeles last night, seat 1D on Alaska Airlines. Pepperoni pizza and cheap Merlot were the rewards of first class seating. I had left my parents and my aunt and uncle back in the city of angels and I was on a plane wondering if I would see them all again.
It wearies me [...]
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I’m angry. Yesterday I dropped soup off at a friend’s house, talked to another for over an hour, drove in the slushy rain and listened to reports on the chaos in Pakistan following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. It’s haunting me. At the gym the TV in front [...]
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