When I was young I believed I would keep the same friends forever. My very first friend was a boy named Charlie. Charlie lived across the street in one of the better kept track houses that we all owned. Charlie’s family had dichondra while most of us had crabgrass. Dichondra is fancy one leaf round [...]

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The Night I Lost More Than My Dinner Looking back, I was ready to pass the lei that summer. I was seventeen, newly in college, away from mom and dad, and it was SUMMER. . I may as well have put a sign around my neck: “My virginity. Take it. Then I won’t worry about [...]

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Daddy was already dressed with his leather bible in his hand when my brothers and I woke around 8:30. Church clothes were shirt, a tie and a pair of black “Payless,” shoes. Perhaps I would own a pair of “church shoes” like daddy when I get older as opposed to the “multipurpose” shoes I wore [...]

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