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Gringa
My first day at La Casa Verde was a Tuesday, and Tuesday was trash day. The streets of Desamparados were lined with mounds of trash to the point where sidewalks were unwalkable. Rotten food, week-old diapers, used tampons, and sour…
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Sell it for Parts
I barreled onto the grass median coughing up smoke as if my esophagus was an exhaust pipe. The mud and rain soaked into my jeans as I crouched on all fours, dry-heaving and panting, and something about those opposites made…
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A Year in the Life: Living in the Kappa Kastle
This past year, I lived in my sorority house with thirty other girls. When I joined my sorority in August of 2017, I had no interest in living in the house. Shoebox rooms, community bathrooms, another roommate – why would…
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Something about the Hot Dogs
There it was, staring at me – the shiny tin full of hot dogs. All piled one on top of the other, skin on skin. I quickly dressed one in a bun to cover up the nakedness for my own…
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the golf course
we laid on the golf course stargazing because I saw it in a movie once and they looked happy and not talking was the easiest way to pretend everything was okay . you reached for my hand and I let…
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genesis 6:12
it started with the garden where life was cherished and everything was pure but it is now covered in soda cans, cigarette butts, and the lingering stench of rotten eggs . a grave site holding wishes, past loves, years unremembered,…
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to my mother
you are autumn colors with the spring bloom summer joy with the winter beauty you move mountains and settle storms, as strong as an earthquake and as gentle as a rose you change like the phases of the moon but…
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70 Songs for 7 Moods
Music has a way of bringing people together, changing your mood, and making you feel like you’re in a room full of friends when you’re alone. There is a certain science behind the way music is constructed, and I’m not…
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Dear Papa,
In honor of my grandfather’s funeral today, this is the letter I wrote and read at the service. As a child, your home was a magical place. “Going to Papa’s” meant going on an adventure. It was a place of…
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Romans 3:23
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Greed – “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more”…
