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ON A VERY COLD DAY during my sophomore year of…
I DID NOT ALWAYS want to be a doctor. I…
HAYLIE BUTTERFIELD WAS THE only person in the dorm I…
HER DAUGHTER HAD CALLED her crazy. Or told her she…
ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT, Jimmy blasted electronica from…
IT COST FOUR MORE QUARTERS to leave a message on…
“GOOD MORNING.” The words were said sweetly, and very softly.
GRETCHEN GAVE ME A RIDE back to Jimmy’s. She felt…
THIRD FLOOR CLYDE was waiting outside my door.
SHE WAS TOO TIRED to get into the whole story.
SHE GOT UP EARLY to take Bowzer out. She did…
“THIS PERSON HAS MY PHONE? Why does he have my…
NATALIE WOKE IN DARKNESS, forgetting, for a moment, where she…
I KNEW, EVEN AS I TOOK the test, that I…
MY MOTHER SAID THAT Pamela O’Toole, formerly Pamela Butterfield, was…
FOR MY NEPHEW’S first Christmas, I knit him a hat.