Tag: relationships
member name: Thomm Quackenbush
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January 24, 2008 03:23 PM EST --
Seven Seconds
Dave mentions the seven-second rule and, though I have known it by other descriptors, I promptly agree that it is true.
"What is the seven second rule?" . . .
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February 07, 2008 12:58 PM EST --
Use Your Disillusion
Emily talks about how I plainly saw this all coming. It is more than possible that I did not let myself see the truth, though she did not help. A potent warning . . .
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November 21, 2007 12:25 AM EST --
Black Wings and Sylvia Plath
Emily had not been up for Samhain, the Pagan holiday honoring the dead, so we opted to have Halloween instead. She waited until the last moment . . .
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February 10, 2008 12:36 AM EST --
Burning Bright
( Melanie has insisted that I be utterly honest in what I thought and felt on this date, so I will abide that rule as best I can. It is not my fashion to be as frank . . .
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July 08, 2007 02:35 PM EDT --
And We Are So Polite
Dives Dives looks at me and concertedly turns her head away, actively ignoring me as I stand on the street in New Paltz listening to the band Tiger Piss playing their set. As I do . . .
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October 02, 2007 08:31 PM EDT --
Turnstile
On the roof of the loft -- the flat an ever-changing collection of Dan Kessler's friends occupy -- he sings a song about one of the occupants with whom he is developing a romantic attachment. . . .
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October 23, 2007 08:17 PM EDT --
Our Home By Degrees
I shuttle between stability and chaos. I took this boarding school job so I would have a free place for Emily and me while she finished her graduate degree, but . . .
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November 26, 2007 01:30 PM EST --
The Unveiled Woman
I make the bold assumption that anyone with whom Dan Kessler has shared any intimacy -- which should be read as more than ten minutes of solid conversation -- counts . . .
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July 15, 2008 01:20 PM EDT --
Daniel lectured Hannah and me on concepts such as squaring the circle and trisecting angles, ideas just beyond my reach and interest. I try to pay attention and the basis behind what he was trying . . .
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December 13, 2007 01:20 PM EST --
Year and a Day
I have to do today that which is going to allow me to live with myself tomorrow. Right now, that means supporting Emily , even when she breaks off our engagement . . . .
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June 14, 2007 04:08 PM EDT --
Second Impressions
I cannot help what people have decided about me - even what they have decided about version of me I have never been except in their eyes - but I can help revise my own presumptions . . .
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January 28, 2008 02:48 PM EST --
This Beautiful Agony
Sarah the Vet Tech and I go to the Dia Museum, if just to give ourselves something a bit more active to do than sit and talk. (I am rapidly running out of clever . . .
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April 07, 2008 05:20 PM EDT --
Swansong
I don't notice anything amiss as I enter Dan 's room. I settle next to Stephanie and begin making faces at her cat (previously known as Mushka but now rechristened . . .
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April 17, 2008 01:55 PM EDT --
Into Every Life
We leave Dan and Stephanie in 60 Main to make the most of being in love in the spring. The night calls too strongly and I am eager to fashion memories with Melanie . . .
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May 03, 2008 08:31 PM EDT --
Flight of the Concord
Melanie says meeting me made her stop believing in the idea of a one true love. She'd spent four months prior sighing over her first serious boyfriend, Kevin. . . .
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July 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
Sunshine and the Storm Cloud
I walk into the Cracker Barrel and zero in on Jenn, who is wearing black jeans and a shirt under an open, mid-calf gray dress. I decide this outfit -- a . . .
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February 03, 2008 07:27 PM EST --
Change or Die
Emily calls me after returning from Los Angeles, where she had been busy training with the rest of the United States All Star Team and spending more time with her friend . . .
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February 18, 2008 01:17 PM EST --
Get Real
"Real?"
I immediately give a sarcastic reply. "No, I am a fictional character ." He -- it's always a man who asks this monosyllabic question . . .
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February 26, 2008 09:19 PM EST --
Creation Myths
Melanie and I did not leave my apartment from Thursday evening to Saturday morning Valentine's weekend, though her original intention was that we would build some . . .
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May 03, 2008 08:11 PM EDT --
The Risk It Takes
I turn on my computer, intending only to tell Melanie that I am home and then go to bed. After her hello, she is silent for several minutes and then writes:
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