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Visitors

Sharing C rations, picking up where you left off, stealing forbidden knowledge

August 1990
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Sexual Responsibility

Calling a live sex line, making her first time be fireworks, loving yourself

July 1990
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Idols

Bob Dylan, the Holy Blessed Virgin Mary, J. Pierpont Morgan

June 1990
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Giving Up

A state of grace, a change in attitude, sainthood

May 1990
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Comforts

Clean sheets and warm wool blankets, barn swallows, music

April 1990
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A Favorite Sight

Red hair, crimson toenails, a man’s chest

March 1990
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The Bomb

“The Ed Sullivan Show,” 50,000 tons of dynamite, the word hope

February 1990
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The Telephone

Anna Karenina, the Peace Corps, long-distance rates

January 1990
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Escapes

From suicide; to prison; into the boards

December 1989
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Dancing

Miss Valentine’s School of Social Dance, jitterbugging in Calcutta, the “big girl’s ward” in the crippled children’s hospital

November 1989
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