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ARIZONA CHRONICLES – PARTS 11, 12 AND FINI
My mother tightly coiled, always walking the fine line between despair and tension, began to unravel just before the holidays. She began locking herself for long periods of time in the bathroom and I would stand in the hallway watching my sister push pictures beneath the slit of the door trying to cheer her up. [...]
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ARIZONA CHRONICLES PARTS 9 & 10
The house was finally finished. My mother cried as we walked through the empty rooms, our voices echoing. I marveled at the new carpet and the smell of fresh paint. We had a breakfast bar and a room for a table. There was a large wood burning stove in the living room. There were two [...]
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ARIZONA CHRONICLES PARTS 7 & 8
There is a fine line between exposing one’s self and showing off an appendix scar. I think I could be guilty of both as I unbuttoned my jeans and showed everyone the four-inch red incision line on my first day back to school. There was a certain sense of pride that I had survived [...]
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ARIZONA CHRONICLES PART 5 & 6
So, I could overcome the heat, dust storms and fatality around every corner because I was in love with two boys at the tender age of eight. They were like photograph negatives of each other. Dylan all blonde and light skinned, Daniel with his dark hair and dark eyes. They also had very different opinions [...]
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ARIZONA CHRONICLES – PART 3 & 4
We moved to a trailer in a desert with no television, radio or reason to live. Surely, tribes in the outermost reaches of a Brazilian jungle had better accommodations. My parents plied us with comic books, novels and a monopoly board. This, of course, did not take the place of a working television. I was [...]
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