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Pitter Patter
I never imagined only having one child. It didn’t occur to me that was a possibility to worry about. What’s the point of starting a family just to stop after the first addition? I assured my ex during the start of the falling out that I was not just trying to work things out for…
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Believer
Momentum is everything, is what I’m saying. Exercise, writing, music, sobriety, what have you. The thing you did yesterday is the most likely thing you’re going to do today.
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Fitter//Happier
I think about Gaza a lot. I don’t want to write about that here, though. That’s why I started a Substack.
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Anger
When our marriage was falling apart and we were fighting the most, my wife said to me on more than one occasion that I needed anger management therapy. Especially after she was pregnant, and when she had just danced linguistic circles around me once again, and I felt myself flailing and couldn’t keep up, and…
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Blinder
My eyes are tired all the time. I’m trying to wear my glasses more, but it isn’t helping. Like 15 years ago I read the first novel of the Neapolitan series, My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante. I don’t remember it being that thick. Or anyway I finished it without remarking on the weight or…
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Older
He doesn’t look that much different to me than he did a year ago. Or two years ago. Or three years ago, to be honest.
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Gender
Listen dude. Nah, not going to start like that. I’ll get there probably, but not yet. The gender fence? No no, stop it, not yet. I love Infinite Jest. It’s one of the few novels that in my adult life I’ve read twice. (I used to read novels several times in a row as a…
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Waver
Alex got diagnosed with autism today. Finally. It’s not like we didn’t know, but no one was saying it.
Aaron M. Fortkamp 