Until my father died last year from cancer, the worst thing that had ever happened to me was the loss of my cockatiel, Andre, when I was 15. I had al
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My second year of college, I dressed as a pagan god for Halloween. The outfit consisted of a green cow’s mask, a pair of blue sweatpants, a tie-dyed
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About ten years back, I was attending graduate school in a large Midwestern city. An ex-girlfriend of mine -- a law student -- lived about a block f
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I was fast asleep when the phone rang. I stumbled into the living room and picked up my phone, which is cracked and makes a hideous, piercing noise
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During my first year in college, I shared a floor with some of the most unsavory people I’d ever meet. One of them -- we’ll call him “Ben” since tha
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Between college and graduate school, I worked a variety of terrible jobs for little more than minimum wage. During that long summer of 1993, I spent
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I was driving up my street one night about ten years ago, looking for a decent parking spot, when I found one about 75 yards from my apartment -- a r
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It was my first year of graduate school, and I was supposed to give a lecture to a history class for which I was serving as a teaching assistant. I
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