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Getting Punched in my Stupid Fat Face
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Topics: high school, lake erie, oh, ashtabula, growing up, family life, fighting, personal essay, nonfiction, memoir, comedy, open call, mortifying disclosures
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Topics: open call, saved by pop culture, michael jackson, growing up, teenagers, poland, canada, immigrating, suicide, parents
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Hope And Tomato Season - Five-Spotted Hawk Moth
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My Tiny Hypocrisy is Really Classical
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My Ethnic Identity Crisis
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Mother's Day When Mom is Gone
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The Cosby Show Nation
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Topics: open call, saved by pop culture, family, television, children, growing up
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Torch & Twang
APRIL 16, 2010 9:31AM
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Topics: girls, boys, growing up, queer issues, but aren't you gay?
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