On April 12th, I received a message on Facebook from C**** E****, an acquaintance who we didn't usually see around because neither they nor anyone else involved in their little cliques ever helped us with anything we did in the area. They were involved in putting on a CrimethInc book tour date at the Free School later that weekend--their first ( Read more... )

Okay, so I've been putting this off for longer than I probably should have, but at this point I don't have much of a choice and I'd rather some of you hear it straight from me than from anywhere else. Some of you already know because I've gradually reached out directly to many people I consider close friends and whose opinions of me and respect are ( Read more... )

We didn't communicate again until February 3rd of the following year. I had messaged her on Tumblr to tell her I missed her and she ignored it. Soon after, I saw she'd posted on her blog a horrible quote attributed to me, very much out of context, with some text aggressively telling me to fuck myself and triumphantly announcing that she was ( Read more... )

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The first time I went to visit Sam after they moved to Philadelphia in April, I was obviously still very hopeful Tara would take me back, so I had no intentions of doing anything physically intimate or even affectionate with anyone else, not even for fun and not even with someone whose every Instagram post made me sigh involuntarily out of sexual ( Read more... )

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"Since we like the same sorts of images, chances are I was Googling something, found an image, and went to the source page, which was uglyuglyugly. I just remember thinking how nuts it was that your whole everything was my whole everything, and I'd spend hours pouring over your stuff. I so badly wanted to talk to you. I actually remember seeing a ( Read more... )

Friday, January 23rdI woke up at 9 in the car and Matt started driving onward to Philadelphia. When we got into the city around 2:30, we went to pick Tia up from her new place; the one I'd be living in for the next two months. It was off of Broad Street within blocks of the Temple campus that had taken over the area. You could tell the ( Read more... )