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Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

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I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious."Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register.By then the bar...more

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When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail ...more

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I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth brown hair and show-me smiles, grapefruit-headed ...more

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The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.

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We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couple...more

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To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

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He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is wort...more

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I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had ...more

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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a...more

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I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than ...more

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Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

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You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

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I love the way he smelled whenever his head dipped close to hear what I was saying—like the sun striking th cheek of a tomato, or soap drying in the h...more

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Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and maybe we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather ...more