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Sex and the Sixty (Year Old) Pt 2

January 17, 2012

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For those of you who believe my friend Susan hasn’t given online dating enough of a chance, rest assured she has been doing this since the original site, cavematch.com. Thus far, she has only excluded the sites that would result in the FBI confiscating her computer. After she is contacted by men, and, after she […]

Sex and the Sixty (Year Old) Pt 1

January 16, 2012

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Welcome to a five-part series of reposts, a veritable cornucopia of past drivel, a best of, a past hits, a test of quantum physics.  If all reality isn’t reality at all, and if everything is happening at the same time with no past, present, or future, then not only isn’t this a repost, the events portrayed are […]

A Life Before Dying

December 19, 2011

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A lot of us spend a lot of time thinking about life in general, and/or about our lives in particular.  Some of us never think about these things at all because we are in our lives, up to our eyeballs in the nonsense or the wonder or the frustration of what bombards us day in […]

A (True) Love Story

October 18, 2011

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She went to sleep as she always had, immediately and deeply.  She awoke, choking, in a room filled with smoke and to a kind of fear she had never experienced before.  She was 21 years old, and she was confronted with the very real thought that her life might be finite. She couldn’t have known […]

Love and War. And Love.

June 28, 2011

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There’s a iconic photo taken on August 14, 1945 by the legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstadt.  It is the day World War II ended, and the photo is called “The Kiss.”  A young soldier in Times Square (We assume he is strong, handsome, possessed of all the traits necessary to have single-handedly beaten the Germans and […]