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Nov.18.2011
("Sky God" artwork courtesy of CTI tech team)
You are neither a phoenix hatched out of paradise
nor an eagle carved from golden distinction.
Your stature poses oddly between crow-sized
and hawk-like, denying the genus to which you belong.
And poets gazing upon you do not frost their tongues...
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Nov.18.2011
My favorite love story doesn't come from a novel or short story. It doesn't come from the movies or a blog or any other form of the written word. My favorite love story is my own.
For a long time I had dreamed of spending my 25th anniversary in Italy. But like most fantasies or,...
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Nov.18.2011
Is it ridiculous to live for love? The interwoven strands of living beings’ love for one another raises the possibility that maybe the purpose of life is to love. L’histoire d’amour is undoubtedly one of Willa Cather’s “two or three human stories” that repeats itself “as fiercely...
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Nov.18.2011
Too many love stories I’ve read depict a brief encounter, a love that needn’t last, so not much is asked of it. Audrey Niffenegger’s “The Time Traveler’s Wife” gave me a much more familiar perspective of enduring love. Although Clare and Henry meet, marry, start a family on much the same calendar...
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Nov.18.2011
After graduating high school in a small Northeastern town, Ellie worked at the local dry cleaners with her mom to help support their large family. Each day Don and his buddies walked past the cleaners and headed to the nearby coffee shop. They laughed and joked as they walked past,...
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Nov.18.2011
To appreciate Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize winning love story, The Age of Innocence, you have to understand the almost forgotten practice of moral obligation. In our “Sex and the City” subculture, moral obligation means breaking up one short-term relationship via email ten minutes before...
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Nov.17.2011
My favorite love story is the one I've lived.
When my college boyfriend picked me up for our Valentine's date, I wanted poetry (he was an English major, too), flowers (who doesn't love roses), and a heart-shaped box of candy (we both liked dark chocolate). Champagne would be nice, too.
Instead, I...
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Nov.17.2011
A while ago I received an e-mail from the bank that controls all of the money I have in this world. They were enhancing their security system with a series of personal questions. The idea being that only they and I would know the answers which would be used to thwart any attempt by cyber...
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Nov.17.2011
My grey tabby was brought to my door about a year and a half ago by a young girl who was a student. I don’t know what she was studying, but she had some kind of connection with the Trenton Animal Rescue. I was looking for a cat and she brought me this tiny little fur ball that I adored...
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