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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs...more

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males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

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You," Seven pronounced, "are a train wreck of sexual history."But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tr...more

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I was in the mood to make out in the back row of the movie theater with someone who did not know my first name. I wanted three guys to fight for the h...more

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I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious."Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register.By then the bar...more

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I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, th...more

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I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had ...more

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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

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Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, B...more

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I love the way he smelled whenever his head dipped close to hear what I was saying—like the sun striking th cheek of a tomato, or soap drying in the h...more

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He's an egotistical dickhead who's going to chew you up and spit you out; and you have a really awful history of falling for assholes that you ought t...more

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Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you b...more

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Can you fall for someone because you're lazy?

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...maybe you believe that we fall into our future blindly, drifting from adventure to adventure, our journey zigzagging not according to plan but acco...more

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because in the past words have only driven them apart.