If I could go anywhere right now, I would go to a movie-fied version of Paris in the 1950’s…all Technicolor pastels…and with all the sparkle of the celluloid that captured it…and I would stride down the street in my heels, walking a poodle & smoking Gauloises like I was the fucking shit, man. And I would be. I would be the fucking shit...

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Something Almost Like the Cache of a Crow

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Today, I told him about the jewelry box.  I was given the jewelry box as a Christmas present shortly after the sexual abuse began. At the time, I was 5 years old. I was struggling to survive the daily onslaught of hands and then there was this gorgeous gift. It was made of wood, stained…
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