Tag: love
member name: David Rochester
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October 12, 2006 02:05 PM EDT --
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*This brief essay is for Wendy S., whose article referenced above made me think about my own Big Problem with Dating.*
Recently I have been thinking about . . .
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January 25, 2007 11:02 AM EST --
Recently I entered into A Pleasant Arrangment with a woman of my acquaintance who seems to want exactly what I want right now: an enjoyable, part-time, drama-free, no-stress Affair. . . .
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January 04, 2007 06:18 PM EST --
Today I was thinking about my first car, which had a few eccentricities. Someone had broken the antenna off under circumstances never disclosed to me, with the result that it picked up . . .
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February 11, 2007 03:59 PM EST --
I have always had a strong sense that people come into our lives for a reason; sometimes one person serves multiple purposes -- in my view, that's the most efficient manner of human interaction . . .
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October 10, 2006 12:59 AM EDT --
for Clay Douglas
The last things she'd washed had been his: shorts, socks; the slate-colored sweatshirts he wore to bed in winter, neutral and identical as prison uniforms. She . . .
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September 30, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
Yesterday I had occasion to help myself to a fork from the silverware container at a restaurant. I took a handle, and pulled out two forks at once, their tines tangled together. It was . . .
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October 07, 2006 06:13 PM EDT --
The night he had her over for dinner, things went wrong. He'd made tuna casserole, which she hated. He hadn't followed the recipe correctly, and it was a soupy mess. "I don't . . .
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September 30, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
The Field-Surgeon
What choice did I have, save to take the drill
What option, but to boldly seize the knife
With steady hand, and resolute of will
To carve away your wound, and give you life?
I shuddered . . .
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October 01, 2006 02:33 AM EDT --
This evening I had dinner with my friend Diane, whom I met a couple of years ago when I was the president of a business networking group. She is a few years younger than my mother, . . .
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October 07, 2006 01:12 PM EDT --
Recently I moved from a condominium to a real house with a yard -- albeit a very teensy one -- and I decided to indulge a lifelong dream of planting lots and lots of iris and tulips, with the . . .
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September 27, 2006 11:54 PM EDT --
I arrived at the library half an hour early, to set up the meeting room for the play-reading group, and also to do some preparation for the reading which I had left until the last minute. I . . .
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November 24, 2006 01:13 AM EST --
Over the past few days, I have been attempting to access the emotional state of a character from whose point of view I want to write a story. This character is in a situation I haven't . . .
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October 07, 2006 02:08 AM EDT --
He had sat with her for days, weeks, months, until Time blurred and there was nothing but Now. He read aloud to her from her favorite book, his voice steady. Again and again he kissed the cold . . .
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October 06, 2006 10:42 PM EDT --
The first time he saw her she was wearing a frilly pink dress; her dark hair hung in two glossy braids over her shoulders. He decided to approach her with his best, and opened the box to display a rainbow. . . .
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