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Men, Myself, & I

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Thank you doesn't seem like it's big enough.
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Chapter 49: The Beginning is the End is the Beginning (Epilogue)
So it is that all my attempts at closure led me to the real ending: the beginning of learning to be different.
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Chapter 48: The Peace of Wild Things
If I wanted something to change, I had to be different, and my time at camp was exactly that. For the first time since we opened our marriage, life was…
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Chapter 47: Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
That spring, I found myself truly alone for the first time in a very long time. Jack and I were over, and Viktor and I, and The Gentle Giant, too. There…
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Chapter 46: Someone Great
For the first time in my adult life, I understood—firsthand, not in story; in real time, not the past—how damaging my dad’s influence had been, and how…
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Chapter 45: Anything, Anything
Questions I found myself asking; maybe you relate? Which is more dangerous—smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol? Where does love go when it’s lost…
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Chapter 44: Defibrillation
I’d come a long way since the many times I silently got myself off with a vibrator while Jack showered after we had sex, but I still felt bashful about…
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Chapter 43: Reckoner
My face was entirely flat, my eyes sunken Titanics. I looked despondent. I hadn’t seen that expression on my face since Vox died.
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Chapter 42: Coming In from the Cold
None of these things occurred to me at the time. Now I’d love to go back and ask myself: What is your best-case scenario for these dates you keep…
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Chapter 41: Ramble On
For so many years I’d been seeking validation from sex, from men…I had no idea who I was. Which meant, in certain contexts—(whenever a man was remotely…
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Chapter 40: I'm Goin' Down
Had I withdrawn rather than facing the reality of losing another someone who I loved the most?
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Chapter 39: Last Kiss
“No, I’m just telling you how I feel. I’m saying I can’t fucking do this, like this, anymore. This isn’t working.” I meant our way of relating, not the…
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