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Close Calls
Getting mugged in Central Park, doing angel dust, driving into a telephone pole
April 1992
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Aging
A drawing on a napkin, a motorcycle helmet, a sound never heard before
March 1992
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Prisons
Listening to the scamper of steps, the same question every fifteen seconds, the laughter of the guards
February 1992
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Whirlwind Romances
An eclipse, a single gardenia and an avocado, a fine blue Cadillac
December 1991
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Homecoming
A tiny duckling, a bullethole in the ceiling, chocolate chip cookies and bomb craters
November 1991
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Enemies
Shifting into gear and ramming a garbage can into the wall, buying a house together, playing apple-war games
October 1991
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Abortion
Secret codes, an underground network of doctors, complications
September 1991
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Trees
New neighbors, the sack of Rome, a treehouse in the Cascade Mountains
August 1991
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The God Of My Childhood
Killing God; discovering orgasms; feeling connected by a giant, invisible web linking all things
July 1991
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