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tonight was mom's 'birthday', and all of us combined couldn't manage to ruin it. minus michael and andrew of course, who are conveniently tucked away at their respective summer programs. my parents went to a movie tonight - together - for the first time since i can remember, and for the first time in just as long, i found myself home alone. wine- ( Read more... )

these are not poems but secret confessions ( Read more... )

one year and a giant blowup bulldog swaying in the warm still of april. one boy, student, man, found dead in his apartment ( Read more... )

i watch everwood on monday nights, but this time on a couch and not laying on the floor near my dad, not on that green carpet so dirty from spilled milk and frozen dinners and bowls of easy-mac, and not with my head on that old ratty abc comforter that we still have two of but not a bunk bed anymore, just big-boy trundles and mikey sleeps in my bed ( Read more... )