When we took grandpa to the retirement house, he got angry. All his life he had been a free spirit. If he had gotten married, it was only because grandma was “the most beautiful woman he had ever seen”, as he used to say. When he lost her, he took the road again. But the…
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It was crazy from the beginning! I mean, it all began with a book club, can you believe it? I was in college, totally stressed out, and I joined a book club with the idea of meeting nice people. Also, I wanted to talk about something totally unrelated to Odontology, which was my major. How…
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I’m a stunt double. That means I do all the risky scenes, and the “star” gets all the credit. Sometimes, it can become very frustrating. For example, when the so-called “star” doesn’t want you to be even near him —I could give names, but that would affect my next jobs—. To be honest, it also…
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He ties and unties, always ties and unties. He ties and remembers the treason, the pain deep in his heart. Then, he unties and thinks of the future, and hope surfaces. He ties again and hope disappears. He unties again, and he feels capable of forgiving and moving on. As for me, I’m Scheherazade. Let…
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Have you seen the new building on the 134th? I did it. And the huge mall on the Eastern suburbs? I did it. If you’ve entered a building in which you have felt immediately involved by a certain mood, most probably I did it. However, what neither you nor anybody else has seen is the…
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When my mom gets really upset with us, she says that she was never as stubborn and wild as my sister and I are. She says she and her sister —aunt Olivia— behaved very well. And she wonders why we can’t be like them. But I know the truth and all I can say is…
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Most people just won’t admit how kink they are. If you ask them they’ll say that they have an open mind regarding sexuality, and that they are fine with everybody doing their business as they want in the bedroom, and yadda yadda yadda. However, when it comes to give concrete examples of what they mean,…
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There’s been a change of tides, that’s a fact. We do things people from the previous generations didn’t do, and we stopped doing things that they normally did. I think about this while I’m on the elevator, on my way to Mindy’s office. She’s a business executive. So, she spends the day in her office,…
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Every day, Mr. Hashimoto comes back from his office at the exact same time. It doesn’t matter if he had a meeting with a high-ranking government official or if there was a fire at the plant, he’s at home at 8:00 o’clock sharp. His mansion staff knows this and works accordingly. They also know their…
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