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The Man

Thursday, November 6, 2008

I was chatting with a man in the obstetrician’s waiting room when suddenly I realized that he was pregnant too. “I’m due in September,” he said, smiling proudly and rubbing his belly.
I should have been polite. Should have just said congratulations and left it at that, but instead I blurted, “But, you’re a man. [...]

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Remains

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Bones were discovered in my crawlspace, and police arrived to investigate, sifting the dirt for clues. When they learned that the remains were centuries old, they closed the case, and archeologists were brought in. “She was a woman about your size,” they told me, “probably one of the early settlers in the region.” The entire [...]

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