Sirenita’s body has become a cancer growing-ground, an incubator for terrorist cells that have out-muscled her immune system and broken its defenses. She has been told that she will live for, perhaps, six more months.

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I wear his ring. The nurse made him take it and his watch off and give them to me. When she asked him if he had any other jewelry, maybe a body piercing that they would find out about later (she winked), he didn’t laugh. His clothes are in… Read full post »

 

 

DISCLAIMERS: This isn’t a researched recital of statistical evidence. It’s entirely anecdotal from my own experience and not meant to generalize beyond that. I am biased in certain ways, same as you. But I am old and have seen a lot in this life, particularly in my j… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

   If your kid is a student at Duke, you stay at the WaDu* when you visit. The last time I was there was in ’96 when Amy and Chris were graduating from law school. Mr. Forte and his dad Ed, me and my/… Read full post »

  
  

My walk-in closet looks like an IED exploded in it: two fat piles of jeans and slacks, another of shirts and sweaters, scattered shoes I’m tripping on. There’s a rats’ nest of hangers out in the hall. I am ruthlessly culling the old or sick or awful;… Read full post »

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I am posting my work on my website - adobe soup - the unzipped life of candace mann - as I have done for the last year or so. I still read and rate and sometimes comment on Open Salon when it's unstuck and I can get in which, sadly, is/… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

 

I am posting my work on my website - adobe soup - the unzipped life of candace mann - as I have done for the last year or so. I still read and rate and sometimes comment on Open Salon when it's unstuck and I can… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

I am posting my work on my website - adobe soup - the unzipped life of candace mann - as I have done for the last year or so. I still read and rate and sometimes comment on Open Salon when it's unstuck and I can get… Read full post »

 

 

I am posting my work on my website - adobe soup - the unzipped life of candace mann - as I have done for the last year or so. I still read and rate and sometimes comment on Open Salon when it's unstuck and I can get in.  

The/… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

I am posting my work on my website - adobe soup - the unzipped life of candace mann - as I have done for the last year or so. I still read and rate and sometimes comment on Open Salon when it's unstuck and I can get in.… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am posting my work on my website - adobe soup - the unzipped life of candace mann - as I have done for the last year or so. I still read and rate and sometimes comment on Open Salon when it's nighttime for… Read full post »

 

 

 

  

 

 

I am posting my work on my website - www.adobesoup.com - as I have done for the last year or so. I still read and rate and sometimes comment on Open Salon when it's nighttime for the spammers in the People's Republic of China… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

 

I am posting my work on my website - www.adobesoup.com - as I have done for the last year or so. I still read and rate on Open Salon, though for now my comments are on hold or sent as private messages.  If you… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

 

charlie pablo kitty, full of mouse lunch, waits at a farm in sebastopol 

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UPDATED 8.12.12 11:40 a.m. PDT - bottom of original essay, before comments
Apparently at least a couple well-known people here have created many – dozens, if the scuttlebutt is true – false identities (alters) for the purposes of: rating their main identity’s (Main… Read full post »