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Cocooning
“Every testimony, every coming-out story, attempts a transformation of life. But narration is not life itself, exactly, or its transformation; it is a cocooning.”
Girl Genius
She will grow up and leave me and yet never leave me; she will be mine forever, a being I shaped.
The Buddy System
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Crows become familiars for a writer living on the surface of a changing city.
Age, Sex, Location
Chatrooms taught me everything I needed to know about what real people were like before I had to grow up and become one of them.
Big Love
There are many kinds of love stories. This one involves a woman and an elephant, and the bond between them spanning nearly 50 years.
All True At Once
You made a fool of the words “feminine” and “masculine” — you were neither, you were both.
Bad Tape
What I learned about judgment from a car thief, a bank robber, and a mysterious VHS.
The Teacher Crush
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