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my lifes many stories


by jsween
Apr 02, 2012

My life is one of many stories there is the one about my mom killing a two year old baby of the wealthy couple she was a nanny for and whatever unfortunate reason she made the unholy decision to lay the blame of that despicable crime on me,...

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Cross Country 6 day Car Bomb


by mattdough18
Mar 29, 2012

  The year was 1998, I was 24 Years old, and I was in my second year of teaching at a Preparatory School in Florida.  A grand tradition at the Middle School I taught at was that each grade take a trip to bringing harmony and unity to...

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Yahurme?


by LeslieF80
Mar 22, 2012

I tend to look for meaning in things. I look for recurring patterns on fake marble flooring and printed fabric, I find a rhythm quickly, and I am often struck by how one person may smell like some unique combination of things. My husband smells...

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Humans Are Superior To Animals


by grahamgremore
Mar 14, 2012

In third grade, my teacher, Mrs. Hibbish, assigned the class to write a brief essay answering the following question: If you could be any animal, what animal would you be? This was my response...

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Who owns this space ?


by s100bus
Mar 06, 2012

 I was with a friend from the office and I was looking for a parking space. 

The outdoor mall was huge, acres of pavement and I saw a space.

A car was pulling out and that blocked my view.

I pulled in and the car...

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Dipping Below the Surface


by GrampaSappy
Mar 01, 2012

John talks about meeting an octopus in the cold waters of the Puget Sound.

 

 

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The Lost Boy


by Shuckfinn
Feb 29, 2012

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Rainbow Warrior


by gzacchai
Feb 22, 2012

One man's decision to skip being hip is rooted in a very ungroovy trip

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The first (and only) time I ever got arrested.


by ateamfamily444@...
Feb 19, 2012

So, when I was 17 my friend DJ and I were walking home from school. We were walking down a street we went down every day when DJ saw a traffic cone just sitting there on the sidewalk. Being the rebellious, irresponsible young man he was he...

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The worst night of my life.


by ateamfamily444@...
Feb 19, 2012

The worst night of my life. I was 19 years old. I had a great job working for an ambulance company while I went to EMT school. I lived at home with my mother in a suburb of Boston and if you didn't know me that well you...

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Lesson of the Turtle


by brianjdykstra@g...
Feb 13, 2012

 

 

I was a young  boy in Grand Rapids, MI - living -

kenston, lived by the pond, "skipping turtles doesn't hurt them" he says, begging me to join him.

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Giving up


by anutter
Jan 23, 2012

             I glared at my paddle, convinced that the intensity of my gaze could somehow force it through the water faster. My skinny nine-year-old arms sunk the right side into the...

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Giving up


by anutter
Jan 23, 2012

             I glared at my paddle, convinced that the intensity of my gaze could somehow force it through the water faster. My skinny nine-year-old arms sunk the right side into the...

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Broken Nails


by PaulaSophia
Jan 15, 2012

In October 2000 the Oklahoma City chapter of Exchange Clubs International declared me "Officer of the Year."

The United States Department of Justice gave me a Community Leadership award for helping the FBI investigate Asian...

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You Can't Be Gay Unless You Have A Job


by grahamgremore
Jan 03, 2012

A tale about demystifying the word "gay" in the second grade and my desperate longing to be a homosexual as a young person. Lucky for me, it all worked out in the end.