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Whenever You See Me Somewhere Succeeding In One Area Of My Life, That Almost Certainly Means I Am Failing In Another Area Of My Life.

You Literally Can Shoot Someone In The Face On Television And A 7-year-old Can Watch It. But You Can't Show The Slight Of A Man's Hip, Because Dear God, Someone Might Think Of Sex. And While We All Hope Our Kids Grow Up To Have Sex, We Do Not Hope They Grow Up To Shoot Someone In The Face.

I Don't Know If Anyone Has Noticed But I Only Ever Write About One Thing: Being Alone. The Fear Of Being Alone, The Desire To Not Be Alone, The Attempts We Make To Find Our Person, To Keep Our Person, To Convince Our Person To Not Leave Us Alone, The Joy Of Being With Our Person And Thus No Longer Alone, The Devastation Of Being Left Alone. The Need To Hear The Words: You Are Not Alone.

We Spend Our Whole Lives Worrying About The Future, Planning For The Future, Trying To Predict The Future, As If Figuring It Out Will Cushion The Blow. But The Future Is Always Changing. The Future Is The Home Of Our Deepest Fears And Wildest Hopes. But One Thing Is Certain When It Finally Reveals Itself. The Future Is Never The Way We Imagined It.

I Was 4 And Dictating Stories Into A Tape Recorder, And My Mom Typed Them Up.