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My scream into the cosmos has been heard!

"Hi [ZephMom],

The nodule was part of the thyroid and was benign. No Evidence of cancer. Nothing more needs to be done.

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I was beginning to wonder if I could ever feel whatever it was I felt seven years ago, when I was sneaking badly written poems about you into my phone during physics.

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As a resolutely brown-eyed person, I have no proverbial dog in this proverbial hunt, but I feel inclined to opine anyway: popular myth to the contrary, blue-eyed people do indeed have souls.

The idea that blue-eyed people lack souls dates back to medieval Europe, where eye color carried mystical significance. Blue eyes, being rarer in many regions, were sometimes seen as otherworldly, either divine or demonic, depending on the context. By the…

at a certain point I have to wonder,
what the fuck was that leap of faith for?

I see the young woman who works where I work
(though you could hardly say we work together)
and I see something of myself reflected

the 20-something kid is laboriously quiet
unwilling to take much risk
seeming like she feels hollow

Jim Carey told a story about his dad

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