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John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever ("The Cure," "The Sorrows of Gin," "Metamorphoses," "The Children," "The Wrysons," "O Youth and Beauty!"). -
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john cheever, the stories of john cheever ("the ocean," "the swimmer"). -
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john cheever, the stories of john cheever ("the chaste clarissa," "the cure," "christmas is a sad season for the poor," "the season of divorce"). -
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maile meloy, half in love: stories ("tome," "four lean hounds, ca. 1976," "ranch girl," "aqua boulevard," "garrison junction," "the river"). -
"you like her more zen you know."
today mom told me that grandmother liza liked to save oranges and dry her own fruit peels for potpourri and mothballs. she said that she liked opera and music, and that she was a quiet, soft kind of person - not the severe person i always thought she was from her photograph, a stern-looking businesswoman in a shearling coat and pumps, holding a ( Read more... ) -
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a poem
today karl the mackinac island carriage tours street sweeper pulled out his wide-ruled spiral notebook from the apothecary store, full of earnest handwriting with almost no struck-out words, and read me a really awful poem on the grand hotel hill
(i asked him why he wrote poetry and he said, "to sweep the shit of life from my heart") -
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more people i've met in the last couple of weeks ( Read more... ) -
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uhhm, and, ("do you want to go sit on the grass?" he asked on the swings at great turtle park, and laying down on the baseball diamond i started free associating and sharing the whole history of my friend tom's baseball family because i am socially impaired, and, "that's nice," he said, and kissed me for the first time, his face blotting out the