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SFV: Sanctuary
The valley’s not really magic. When I was a kid I thought it was, because when you drive north on the 405 there’s a moment when you come over the hill and you see the valley laid out beneath you. At...
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Denny’s
It was too difficult and familiar tonight. I didn’t want to call you back but your message said you’d finished rehearsal and you were hungry and wanted to meet us. You joined our table, tried to join...
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Protected: Blackburn Daze.
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Eleven
I was eleven when a new strip mall opened on Laurel Canyon and Roscoe. There was a Mervyn’s, a 31 Flavors, a supermarket, a Filipino restaurant, a hallmark store and a Chuck E. Cheese. I think that...
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Kicking in Malibu
This is why the kick reminds us that we are alive: Malibu. I can feel my bones and muscles inside me, breaking, stretching. My skin is hot and bumpy, my hair hurts where it is attached to my scalp....
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Drive
In Farmington, New Mexico, we stayed in a motel that had a pool and a ping-pong table. One night we went to a high school baseball game and ate in a Pizza Hut while we watched cars cruising the tiny...
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Seventeen
I remember the first time I left town after having a boyfriend. I don’t know if he was really a boyfriend because he still had a wife. I was in England for a week or maybe ten days. When I returned...
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