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How to fold a fitted sheet
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How not to dress like a middle-aged woman desperately clinging to her lost youth
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In which I explain myself and all my ways
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Troika: Chapters 3 and 4
in which my father tries to talk me out of embarking on a road trip in terrible weather and I remember the first time he tried to give me a CB radio
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Troika: Chapters 1 and 2
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What I've done in 2026 so far
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Fictional as well as real
how great would it be if we could skip to the "good parts" version?
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Mallomars and other things I cannot have
the abundance problem
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Seethe a little
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Time flies. Please pass the gravy.
Did you know it takes over two days to prepare a Thanksgiving meal and about fifteen minutes to eat it?
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Truth and beauty
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