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The Beauty of Failure

There is an immediate emotional impact when you receive a rejection letter – a sense of disappointment –but even at that young age, I had an optimism that life works itself out… It’s how you leverage failure that is the … Continue reading

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Hoping for New Blooms

This can’t possibly work. Hemza is half my age and lives 3,800 miles away. But after he visited me in November, he updated his online status to say, “I fell in love with his soul before I could even touch … Continue reading

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Synchronized Swimming

“I want to spend the next 50 years with you,” Barry said on our third date. We had met in a water bed store: He was selling and I was buying. Over the beds, he said that he loved to … Continue reading

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Accomplishments

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They are the temporary, happy by products of time and/or DNA. Don’t hold your breath for either. – Carrie Fisher Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the … Continue reading

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A Girl Again

“Hello, little girl!” That is how my father starts every phone call. Even though I expect it, his greeting still makes me chuckle. I’m not sure if he meant to imitate Archie Bunker from “All in the Family,” or if … Continue reading

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