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I am curious to see if this will put me in some alter-Universe like the so-called Facebook jail.

It was her January birthday and I had flown from California to Maryland to watch her turn 64 in her new one-bedroom apartment within a 55+ community. She was a childhood friend from my mid-to late- teenage years. I called her Lady Baltimore or sometimes WordGirl. She was like a soul mate without the sex. That doesn't come around all too...

I've only been able to get up to the property once a week, sometimes not even that. The driveway took much longer than it should have. It's covered with stone now but it's still too loose to drive on unless you have 4 wheel drive. I still need to rent a compactor but I want to thin out some spots that have too much and repurpose it elsewhere...

Origin of analgesia 1700–10; < New Latin < Greek analgesía painlessness, equivalent to analget ( os ) without pain ( an- an- 1 + alg ( os ) pain + -etos adj. suffix) + -ia -ia Yes, I am certainly an odd duck when it comes to refusing pain medication at the dentist's office. "Unless you are performing an extraction," I'd say, "I do not want...

It's my SECOND hometown and a city that I have never stopped loving (even with its abundance of drug addicts and practicing alcoholics). I generally go there on my own and I usually prefer to drive. It's an easy trip to make even the way I meander. This time, however, I am planning on going with an old pen pal of mine; an Australian to whom...