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Michael Joe Armijo

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Born

in Oakland, The United States

Website

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0F14WVB46...

Genre

Historical Fiction, Thriller, Gay and Lesbian

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Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, Patricia Highsmith ...more

Member Since

November 2010

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https://www.goodreads.com/michaelarm

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I keep a daily BLOG. Please follow it: http://007gentleman.blogspot.com/

My author page on Amazon with my most recent published books under my name, MICHAEL JOE ARMIJO:

https://www.amazon.com/SECRETS-INSIDE...

https://www.amazon.com/FUTURE-WE-CHAS...

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/...

I've written a book of poetry (A POCKETFULL OF MARBLES) but it is not appearing on this site for some reason. Here is a link for it:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-j-a...

My short/story pamplet book (MY MYSTERY CHILD) is available here:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-j-a...

I love QUOTES and always underline written words that have significant impact on me. I have denoted many quotes on my BLOG that have captured me for one reason or another.

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A Certain Look

“People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness.” --Joan Didion, THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING

Feb 1, 2000

While at mom’s I had a meeting with my brothers, Tony and John, and asked them to choose major things in the house they wanted.

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Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero is, above all, a survival document — sad, ever so poignant, and quietly devastating in its honesty. Actress Glenn Close had posted on social media that she was reading it after a few days of shooting a film in Madrid, Sp ...more
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Published in 1999, Catfish and Mandala is an intimate journey—part travelogue, part memoir, part reckoning. Andrew X. Pham, a Vietnamese-American exile, leaves the San Francisco Bay Area by bicycle, rides north to Seattle, then flies onward through J ...more
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Michael Joe’s Quotes

“How then, in the time that followed, did I become someone I didn't know?”
― Paul Lisicky

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“I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God. ”
― Leo F. Buscaglia, Living, Loving & Learning

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