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A review of the decade
In the first hours of 2000, I spun around a dance floor in South Africa. I was blond. I would line my eyes with kohl black. I was in love. Later that year, I learned that men lie, sometimes out of fe… more →
Hope dies last
A review of the decade
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Hope wrote 1 week ago: In the first hours of 2000, I spun around a dance floor in South Africa. I was blond. I would line m … more →
Password protected: Part Two
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Hope wrote 1 month ago: As I recall it now, the night seemed never-ending as if the world itself were to begin–brand n … more →
Impressionism
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Hope wrote 1 month ago: If we were to ever meet; if we were to ever go out lunching or drinking or even just hanging; if I b … more →
Blink
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Hope wrote 1 month ago: All this time, I’ve thought I’ve been unlucky in love. But the other night, as A and I g … more →
Twenty dates
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Hope wrote 2 months ago: After the first date, I sent an email to my four closest friends. The subject read, “Would it … more →
Almost
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Hope wrote 3 months ago: ‘Time heals all wounds’, the tongue-tied tell the broken-hearted. As seconds roll into h … more →
Thinking
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Hope wrote 3 months ago: Will I ever feel safe enough to reveal myself and my feelings to a man to a extent that he will fall … more →
The look
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Hope wrote 4 months ago: I have seen this expression before. I have seen it before and it all begins and ends in the eyes. Th … more →
His/hers
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Hope wrote 4 months ago: This is the way it works after you’ve been disappointed or broken or burned. I mean–I su … more →
Notes from a singleton #2
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Hope wrote 4 months ago: [I started this series three days before I met him. And as we are currently 'dating' I still conside … more →
Undefined
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Hope wrote 5 months ago: At the very beginning, in that undefined time of first kisses and first sleep overs, he appears to h … more →
Notes from a singleton #1
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Hope wrote 5 months ago: On good days and on good weeks and on overall good months I feel extremely lucky that I’m sin … more →
35 Things in 2008
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Hope wrote 11 months ago: A new year cannot really feel like a new year until the previous year has been dissected, right? So … more →
Sexual selection
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Hope wrote 1 year ago: “Your brother told me that you were in hospital and all about your health troubles. I’m … more →
Hope Smiles Back: Part Two
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Hope wrote 1 year ago: (Part One here) T follows after him, calling his name. She gives him my number. “Thank you … more →
Hope waits
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Hope wrote 2 years ago: Hour 1-4: In my alcohol induced haze, I am certain he is going to call. Liquid confidence convinces … more →
Umm, it's just that I don't like smokers
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akvin wrote 2 years ago: Can you say that to a girl? Hungry Hungarian texted me yesterday literally just as I was publishing … more →
My funny Valentine
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akvin wrote 2 years ago: It’s Valentine’s Day soon so I figured I’d get the ball rolling, in an effort to b … more →
In praise of kindness
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akvin wrote 2 years ago: I just watched Patch Adams. It’s been a while since the last time. But oh my how I like it. Su … more →
