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In the Gravel Driveways of My Youth

We moved to a new street when I was two. That was nearly 33 years ago. I have no recollection of this event, but it would shape the following 12 years of my life, through toddlerhood, elementary school, and junior high. We moved to a house in the middle of a crescent. Jeff lived next door. He was a year older, and as the story goes, he presented himself at the door of my house, wanting only two bits of information from my parents: Did they have any kids, and did they have any toys? Read more

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Different

I remember she rode the bus to and from school with me my freshman year of high school. Freshman year. High School. That time in most of our lives when our main priority is to belong, when the survival-of-the-trendiest mentality pushes against anyone who swims upstream whether they do so by chance or by choice. And even though in her case it was by chance–genes, biology–she was so…different. Read more

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