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When Someone Truly Gets You
It felt like a stranger opened a window to my soul and wrote what she saw.
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Bureaucracy: The 10th Circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno
If one more person tries to tell me they’re just doing their job…
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I Should Be Smiling
I had to tell my face what to do.
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For Real
God, how I hate being misunderstood.
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Assuming the Worst
When I was 11 years old, I brought some candy to school. They were those little, sugary mints that most kids have seen a million times. My best friend back then was kind of gullible, though, so when she asked me what it was, I told her it was drugs. I thought it was kind…
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On Being Hated
The other day I had to go down to the south end of my drawbridge to do some maintenance. During rush hour, that involves walking down to the traffic light and crossing the road at the crosswalk. On this particular day there was a homeless woman sitting beside the crosswalk button. When I approached, she…
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Smile Means Chisel in Greek
As someone who majored in a foreign language in college (I wasn’t thinking at all about how I’d pay the bills upon graduation), I have spent a lot of time thinking about the things that get lost in translation. Words are not mathematical equations. The word for something in French does not “equal” the word…
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On Being Misunderstood
I’ve got an ex-boyfriend who likes to post on his Facebook page that I cheated on him when I never did. In retrospect I probably should have. I was that miserable.