Highest Up

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Some things would have turned out very differently had I simply stayed put on the bleachers. I’ll still rave about Sir Angel giving a neat speech, I’m sure, get all worked up with the way it reminds me of my days studying microprocessors on the not-so-very-distant past, or of Karel Capek or [...]

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Six Colors and Four Hundred and Fifty-Four Turns Later

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When I entered college, I was running under the notion that, before I got to my majors, I’ll eventually be able to figure out what I want to do after graduating. Get a job, maybe, stick with it for a year or so, then move to another, to another, to another, gathering [...]

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“The Man Who Can’t Be Moved”

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It was, he realized, his time to leave.
“The only thing with that,” I countered, “is that by the time you realize you’re budging on the wrong people, and say, you decide to go back, they may not be there to welcome you anymore.”
I was still pondering about everything he had said on [...]

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Invisible To Everyone

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“And what would you have me do?” he asked me, breaking up in tears. “They were pushing me away; I had to push back!”
The last time I saw him, a few months back, he was alone. I walked up to him, and he said hi in a jerky kind of way. He [...]

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Serendipitous Whatever

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Just a few minutes ago, mom called in to say that she was going to be late, that there was a batch of meatballs waiting to be deep-fried tucked on a tiny little box in the fridge, that I could go ahead and eat, and if I really, really wanted to, “don’t [...]

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