James was a bartender at the restaurant where I worked as a dishwasher and line cook. He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. He was like a sculpture or a model. He was the only person I had ever met that actually worked out in a gym and was compulsively healthy, always […]
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I was still a teenager, maybe 18, when I was living in San Francisco in a large Victorian flat on the third floor. My roommates were all adults in their 30’s and all except one were lesbians that were cool and powerful and fixed their motorbikes on the sidewalk downstairs. I was very intimidated by […]
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I’m a huge tennis fan, I’ve never played it but I’ve loved watching it since I was a little kid watching Boris Becker at Wimbledon. I’ve learned so much and been so inspired by my favorite players through the years that I feel like tennis helped to raise me. One of the most valuable things […]
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So I spent all winter, recovering from one cold or another, hugging my heater and watching The Great British Bake Off on Netflix. Oh my gosh, this show! So soothing and relaxing, so British! The contestants win nothing but a glass cake plate and some flowers but they weep when they win. And the other […]
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So my cheap landlord hired a grifting contractor that has suddenly found a thousand things that have to get done with our apartment. The contractor decided that he needed to fix our bathroom subfloor around our toilet even though we’ve never had our toilet leak before. He casually informed my husband that they’d be doing […]
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