When recently I told a neighbor that I was a writer, her eyes lit up. \”I am too! I just sent a manuscript to an agent. Do you belong to a group?” I told her no. I could have said why, but I decided to keep my thoughts to myself. “Well, I go to a […]
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“No, no, no, please,” Duffy said, cradling her head in his arms, “Gena, please wake up.” It seemed like a reasonable request. Though her bare chest did not stir, she could have passed for being asleep. Her face was still rosy with living warmth, her dark brown hair shiny as ever before. There was even
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I have observed it in others and noticed it in myself: a discomfort with silence. I am not afraid of silence in general. At times it is like music. Exceptions are cases where I write to someone and get no response; that can be uncomfortable, particularly if I have revealed personal information that I had
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In the fall semester of my senior year of high school, my bipolar disorder manifested for the first time. It was far from subtle. I would never have guessed it would have happened to me. I was a quiet straight A student who rarely did the unexpected. My problems began only a few weeks after
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