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Category Archives: life

True Story

16-Jul-08

There’s a story I’ve been meaning to write, a story I want to commit to paper, a true one, one that is different from my other stories and yet uncannily familiar. It’s overflowing with things said and many things left unsaid, happy, sad and everything in between, convoluted and confused and jumbled and as much [...]

Every Time I See You Falling

19-Jun-08

I was on the phone with my parents, who wanted to know why I was so bummed on my birthday. And to my surprise, I did something I wouldn’t usually have done: I told them why. I provided a very honest list of reasons, going into a fair bit of detail, and shared with them [...]

Dzyoos!

18-Jun-08

june 17

16-Jun-08

i know this is so cliche to the point of being offensively banal, but
 
i really don’t enjoy birthdays anymore. i haven’t, for a while now. at least, not my own.

All This Time

31-May-08

So I’m in the hostel lobby by myself, writing post cards. The Greatest Hits of Sting and the Police is playing over the speakers. I’m alone because my siblings are off ostensibly shopping on this the last day of our travels, but since I accidentally found the birthday cake they inexpertly hid in the room last [...]