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so i was talking to your doppelganger

“well, not your doppelganger exactly, but somebody who sort of looks like you, except shorter and with carly simon’s speaking voice (that is, it she’s got a semi-raspy perpetual ‘do you have pneumonia?’ voice), pictured here: [...] and i was trying to prove to her that i knew somebody who kinda sorta looked like her [...]

Departures

Digging through an old directory of things I had written, I came across this. I don’t remember writing it. More importantly, I don’t remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

Cultural Identity, pt. 2

My cultural identity is intimately and inextricably tied to my family life. Central Pinellas County was not and still isn’t a raving hotbed of cultural integration, and what with my parents’ desire that we go to good (that is, affluent, and as a consequence, mostly white) schools and our decade-long membership in a (again, mostly [...]

Cultural Identity, pt. 1

Enough with the trifles, on to something more serious. After my grandparents returned home from their 4-day stay in Chicago, my mother secretly revealed to me that prior to departing Florida, they worried we’d have nothing to talk about, that communication would be such a problem we’d end up just doing nothing all weekend. They [...]

Only a Game

We found seats in the middle of the opposing student section, near the very top of the bleachers. My brother had secured tickets a month beforehand, and while we have been at different graduate schools (he at LSU, I in Illinois) for nearly three years now, we both will always indentify as Gators first and [...]

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