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(First diary, please be kind.)
My father is Donald Trump.
Metaphorically, of course — to my knowledge, we share no DNA. But like Donald Trump, my dad, is a middle-aged white man who “doesn’t hate black people, just poor people” and refers to his...
by GrumpyKate
on Mon Oct 03, 2016 at 07:22 AM PDT
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I'm not usually a Big fan of the holiday seasons.
I'm not sure why. I think having an un-fun, and unfriendly dad took all the fun of out Christmas and out of almost everything, life included
by Woofhound
on Mon Nov 16, 2015 at 11:34 AM PST
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Is it their smile, their voice, their touch? They both give me so very much. I cannot imagine my life without either one. I am most definitely in love with two men and I'll openly admit it. Daily ...
by rollycal
on Tue Oct 28, 2014 at 09:12 AM PDT
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Should I be tall,
Or can I be short?
Should I be vegan,
Or can I eat pork?
Should I be thin,
Or can I be thick?
Should I stay single,
Or say “yes” to Nick?
Should I color my hair,
Maybe blue, ...
by nene20
on Mon Oct 27, 2014 at 03:28 PM PDT
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As someone recently thrust, kicking if not screaming, into the ranks of relationship-challenged singles, the subject of dating is timely for me. Having never actively dated in Memphis, where I now ...
by Iztlan
on Sat Jul 19, 2014 at 05:44 PM PDT
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Last night, I had a dream about Howard Street.
When I was growing up in Chicago's East Rogers Park, Howard Street was the edge of the known universe. That was where the neighborhood changed and ...
by TheFatLadySings
on Thu Apr 25, 2013 at 02:48 AM PDT
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I have never been a politician. I've always run other peoples' campaigns, or vaccinated the elderly, or looked for ways to treat substance abuse, or dragged groups of young leaders with me to ...
by TheFatLadySings
on Fri Apr 12, 2013 at 03:02 AM PDT
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In September of 2008, my 16 year-old daughter Alice shoves her way onto the planning committee for Modesto's 3rd annual LGBT Pride Festival. She takes to carrying around a notebook into which she ...
by laurustina
on Sun Feb 17, 2013 at 10:12 AM PST
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High on the list of things I wish I could explain to people about children like mine, is the importance of pronouns. In general, we don't think about them all that much, but for those like my ...
by laurustina
on Sun Feb 03, 2013 at 10:00 AM PST
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which of course means there will be a future, which is always good news!
Sometime in the next few days Leaves will leave the hospital and return to our home. But it will not be the same, certainly ...
by teacherken
on Thu Jan 31, 2013 at 05:02 PM PST
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In June of 2008, we celebrated my daughter Alice's 16th birthday at the Santa Cruz Pride Parade. We'd enjoyed the parade from the sidelines for years, but until four months ago, Alice was still ...
by laurustina
on Sun Jan 27, 2013 at 12:12 AM PST
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Back in November, I wrote a post about my father. This is a follow up.
My Dad is dying.
There is no sugarcoating it. No “nice” way to say something so horrible. You try to avoid the d-word, to ...
by bobcatgrad
on Wed Jan 23, 2013 at 07:01 AM PST
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(May 2008)
After a breakdown in her therapist's office , my sixteen year-old daughter Alice ends up at Sutter Psychiatric on a 72-hour hold for the third time in a year and a half. It's mid-...
by laurustina
on Wed Jan 16, 2013 at 11:27 AM PST
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(2008) In early May, four months after fifteen-year-old Jordan became Alice I get a panicked phone call from her therapist twenty minutes before I'm scheduled to pick her up. I leave work and drive ...
by laurustina
on Sun Jan 13, 2013 at 03:26 PM PST
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Those of you that read this regular series know that I am from Hackett, Arkansas, just a mile or so from the Oklahoma border, and just about 10 miles south of the Arkansas River. It was a rural ...
by Translator
on Wed Jan 09, 2013 at 05:59 PM PST
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(April 2008) Six weeks after my daughter Alice unzips her Boy Suit, I manage to schedule us a lunch date with the facilitator of the local transgender support group held in our town's tiny (and now ...
by laurustina
on Sun Jan 06, 2013 at 03:59 PM PST
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I stopped working for a moment, lit a cigarette and thought to myself, “How did I get here?" How did I come to be standing in a muddy ditch, chin deep in thorn bushes wiping mouse piss off my hands?
by DuzT
on Sat Dec 29, 2012 at 05:56 PM PST
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When I was a young boy, growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta in the early 80s, I visited the local sports card store with an obsessively. Often, I just stood and gawked at the expensive, rare cards ...
by David Harris Gershon
on Thu Dec 27, 2012 at 06:02 PM PST
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Yesterday I went to visit her in the Hospital. I wept, and I'm not a man to be brought to tears easily, but I wept as I looked at the mother of my father sleeping in a hospital bed.
She ...
by MinistryOfTruth
on Thu Dec 27, 2012 at 08:30 AM PST
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I haven't really been able to celebrate Christmas this year. Or last year. Or the year before that. The year before that was my father's last Christmas. He spent it in a hospital bed that had been ...
by Killer of Sacred Cows
on Wed Dec 26, 2012 at 12:34 PM PST
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