Tag: people
group name: bioandautobio
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September 07, 2006 07:50 PM EDT --
NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
Growing up as a person who was adopted, I always had the normal adoptee questions running through my head. Why was I put up for adoption, who was my birth-mother, . . .
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May 22, 2006 02:24 AM EDT --
I bought my first girdle last year--an amazing piece of construction involving a three-by-one panel of spandex, eight rows of plastic ribbing, and enough hooks to land a boatload of fish. It was . . .
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June 10, 2007 02:04 AM EDT --
I must confess I don't feel sixty. I feel like I'm in my early
40s, and a nice lady at a store where I went today thought
I was fifty when I said today was my birthday even though
both my hair . . .
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March 23, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
I saw him when I left work yesterday. How could I have missed him? Standing on the sidewalk about ten feet from my office door, staring at me all crazy with an "I promise . . .
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May 30, 2006 01:34 AM EDT --
The mate I seek
To entwine by love
Is hid from my lenses
Though the harder I peer
Seconds and eons I pine away
Loins heavy with lust not yet met
How am I to survive more slivers of light
Without the . . .
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August 18, 2006 08:19 AM EDT --
It's only been a few hours since some fast acting doctors saved my life. Robin, Bill, RG and his new friend hung around my bedside for awhile. It's now evening. Visiting hours are over. Everyone . . .
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August 31, 2006 08:02 AM EDT --
Not only is this possible, if you could read people's minds, I'd bet you would find this is the norm rather than the exception to the rule. Wouldn't you really rather have all the people that . . .
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December 02, 2006 06:58 AM EST --
41. I was nearly ten months pregnant (yes, really). My husband was soon to sit an important exam and anxious. He took me on a long car ride at the end of which he deposited me at . . .
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October 10, 2006 10:50 PM EDT --
I feel sorry for some of those "deadbeat dads" that the government pursues for child support a bit of slack. After all, many of them aren't really the fathers . . .
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June 11, 2006 04:39 PM EDT --
Great great grandmother Esther was wild,
Never a husband, many a child.
When long in the tooth
She tarred her own roof.
Ain't nobody dared get her riled.
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August 23, 2006 08:07 AM EDT --
How many of you have been the object of a stalker's attention in real life?
I met Billy S. at a party I was attending with RG and some of our mutual friends. When RG and I go out we do not stick . . .
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March 20, 2007 09:43 AM EDT --
The sky over the delta was metallic in the heat. I knew that a few miles away the cotton was growing and that a few miles beyond that a river was flowing. I knew that between them . . .
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August 12, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
At 14 Erika was a stunner. She was my daughter, and I didn't see it coming. I figured it out when we would walk down the street together and I saw guys swivel their heads so far around I thought they'd . . .
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December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --
This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response.
Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . .
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June 15, 2007 10:22 AM EDT --
I've been tagged by Jeff and prompted to write 5 statements about myself, 4 true and 1 false:
(1) I had been to Florence, Italy and had a deja vu experience which provided me a better understanding . . .
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July 12, 2006 12:10 AM EDT --
Fifteen minutes is the time it takes to change a tire, unless you can't find the jack handle, then it takes a short skirt and pouty lips, unless you have a five o'clock shadow, then you better . . .
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June 11, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
As other's have mentioned, Father's Day is on its way. In my case, I also have to deal with my father's birthday in June.
Like anyone born in December, Dad often gets the short end of the . . .
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June 01, 2006 02:59 PM EDT --
Copper, ochre and mandarin
shades surround me in my sleep,
feeding dreams of fallen
seasons. Fetally recessed
in the warm hollow of mother's
quilt, I hide from September's chill,
hide . . .
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June 24, 2006 09:34 PM EDT --
The tiny flame flickers and fights to keep burning, but slowly
dies. A red ember remains on the wick, glowing, then goes out.
She has no fear of the night--her bunker of silence and peace. . . .
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August 14, 2006 07:37 PM EDT --
Pregnancy was a condition I tried to avoid but my body would thwart me. The only truly, 100% successful form of birth control that I had experience with was THE PILL. It protected me throughout my sexually . . .
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