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Human beings, Adina faxes, rip their addresses off old magazines when they donate them to hair salons. This is how criminals find their victims: They search stacks of People magazines. If they find one where the address has been left on, they think: What a fool. I will go to her house and murder her.
— Sep 21, 2025 02:44AM
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”But what is one for?” she insists.
“One what?” her mother says. “Man?”
“Husband. Boyfriend. People want them so much but I can’t understand what they’re supposed to do. They take so much energy.”
— Sep 20, 2025 08:08AM
“One what?” her mother says. “Man?”
“Husband. Boyfriend. People want them so much but I can’t understand what they’re supposed to do. They take so much energy.”
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Dominic says Bruce Springsteen’s music is about hiding who you are, donning a disguise, making deals with women named Mary near the river, always living in the unlit part of town.
“It’s a queer metaphor,” he says.
— Sep 19, 2025 03:45AM
“It’s a queer metaphor,” he says.
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It is 1999 and Americans are obsessed with the situational comedy about six rich white people living in this city. Adina doesn’t understand why the show is funny; the characters struggle so baldly underneath their meaninglessness, desperate to preserve the cordoned-off theater of their absurd lives… Chandler, meant to be the funniest character, delivers his lines with black-hole eyes. No human can thrive.
— Sep 18, 2025 02:52AM
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When you are alone, you are in the right place to watch sadness approach like storm clouds over an open field. You can sit in a chair and get ready for it. As it moves through you, you can reach out your hands and feel every edge. When it passes and you can drink coffee again you even miss it because it has been loyal to you like a boyfriend.
— Sep 16, 2025 05:14AM
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Human beings, Adina faxes, did not think their lives were challenging enough so they invented roller coasters. A roller coaster is a series of problems on a steel track. Upon encountering real problems, human beings compare their lives to riding a roller coaster, even though they invented roller coasters to be fun things to do on their days off.
— Sep 14, 2025 07:43PM
