Tag: coming of age
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Rose Festival 1990-Something
A bucket hat, a festival, and a version of himself he hasn’t thought about in years — here’s a memory that still fits.
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Proof
Donna is up at five-fifteen. Two hours before Caitlin will be thinking about waking up. Donna is out of things to write. Caitlin is leaving at eight.
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One Page Turned Into a Week of Saying ‘I Like You’
1980s. New kid. A girlfriend with a binder full of hearts, a Mormon friend, a Coke machine full of Pepsi, and one simple request: write me a real note. I should have known better than to start.
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Like Friends Do
A chance run-in at Stoneridge Mall. A blue VW Bug. A smoky apartment and a Nintendo nobody would turn off. Sometimes showing up for a friend is reason enough.
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First Date
“I don’t appreciate what you said about my friends today.” I had no idea what she meant. That would turn into my first date. Read how it all happened.
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His Older Brother
A California kid lands in rural Idaho. Snow, gravel roads, and a school bus full of kids he doesn’t know. One of them is Ray. Big. Farm bred. And looking for a fight. This is about one person who stepped between them, and why, more than thirty years later, he still can’t remember his name.