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Helios 21
Read more: Helios 21Wanting a present meant repeating its name. Short of the moon and well before girls what I most wanted for Christmas was Helios 21. Most means a lot. Most is a must masquerading as a hint. Helios 21 was a silver dirigible inflated by a helium canister the size of…
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The cherry orchard
Read more: The cherry orchardA vanishing act, followed by grief. Inever learned to grieve. When my father died in my presence I remained calm. When my mother died in my arms I wept briefly but stopped in the presence of others. When my aunt died in a bed beside me I remember only signing…
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Greetings, John Glenn
Read more: Greetings, John GlennIt didn’t matter he’d landed. The wave was essential. When John Glenn orbited the Earth I devised a plan to wave to him. It wasn’t a very practical or intelligent plan, but who ever suggested earnestness squared up with either? That my wave would come late — he was launched…
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The boss
Read more: The bossSlim Pickens in Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”: damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. It is fast becoming clear just what Donald J. Trump had in mind when he spoke of making America great again. He is that greatness. He, the newly minted commander-in-chief, will personify an impulsive, larger-than-life America. He’s been granted the world’s…
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Writer’s block
Read more: Writer’s blockBreaking things to Quaker, and others, was difficult. My job at my parents’ cocktails parties was a simple one. I was poised at perfect window-dressing age, eight. An eight-year-old boy is ideal when adults need brief distraction. They’re compelled to says things like, “What a nice boy,” this from wives,…
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Detention hall
Read more: Detention hallWhen resentment is prized, no order makes sense. Ilived in Washington, D.C. for most of my boyhood and teens. Three of those years were spent in a place I thought I’d surely learn to forget. In it, those around me were petty, mischievous, vindictive and self-interested. They spent loads of…
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