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Educationexpand_more“Why don’t you call yourself Butterfly?” he said. “A pretty thing like you.”
My parents had seven children; some of us have bank accounts.
I returned to Vietnam with a tape recorder to collect ca dao.
When and why had I begun to think about Ingrid Stoltz? She was a bitch.
We pushed through the doors, back into the audition, among the lithe adults.
The purpose of all rules of piety is to extend revelation into ordinary life.
“Are all the girls really beautiful? Is it true you make out in the showers?”
Lindy knew what happens in the dark behind shut doors: girls tell stories.
“Mom, don’t you think the fucking racism is worse than my profanity?”
He’s become insufferable since that MacArthur fellowship.
“No, actually you are very different from the women I usually date.”
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I rented a house in the woods of East Hampton as a form of therapy.
Now the mulch has come between us seven turns, I’ve grown dramatic.
On the anniversary of your death, a memory sharpens, as if illuminated.
That’s what I want, to feel terrified, excited, and free, all at once.
Within two weeks, his parents found out and forbade him to belong.
Diane cupped my cheek in her hand, studying me, memorizing me.
Betsy recoiled, understanding instinctively what was to come.
I would chase it to the shores of the lake where the killer waited.
