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I Never Write Right
2023-11-24When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write and illustrate my own books. Half the students sneered, the rest nearly ...
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Magical coat
2023-11-24My l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat simultaneously. It was hanging on a rack at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, crammed ...
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Not a Chance to Regret
2023-11-24A short while ago when life was simple and all that mattered was friends and having fun. There were two sisters that lived life just as gracefully as ...
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The Power of Silence
2023-11-24What did you not say yesterday? Were there things you wish you had said but held back? Did you corral certain words, certain sentences, and hold them ...
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Love and Time
2023-11-24Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it w...
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Why do you have to listen to me?
2023-11-24(U2乐队主唱Bono在哈佛大学毕业典礼上的演说)"I am rebelling against the idea that the world is the way the world is, and there"s not a damned thing I can do ab...
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What will matter?
2023-11-24Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether...
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The Love letter(I)
2023-11-24I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. The fact that she did not live wit...
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The Love Letter (II)
2023-11-24I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. The fact that she did not live wit...
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The Love Letter (III)
2023-11-24When I arrived I found her sitting on the stoep. She looked lonely and pathetic, and for the first time I wondered why no man had ever taken her and l...