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Your Love Life in Six Words
Last year, Smith magazine published a fascinating collection of six-word memoirs, inspired by the one left behind by Hemingway (”For sale: baby shoes, never worn”). On my other blog, I wrote a handful of my own condensed autobiographies. Among them:
-Passionately, I lived, loved, hated, died.
-Wanted to be Bea Arthur. Failed.
-Spent too much time answering phones.
-Read with abandon. Glimpsed God there.
-Met Meryl, but never banged Brody. (Note: Booksnark looooooves him some Adrien Brody. Like, dayum and yum.)
-Alas, I am just too much.*
(*Thanks, Bette Davis. I stole that line from a Barbara Walters interview she once did.)
Now the fine folks over at Smith are at it again, asking writers to describe their love lives in tiny little six-word epics. The results range from hilarious to heartbreaking and are presented in a new book, Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak by Writers Famous and Obscure. Here’s a sampling of some of the entries:
If I get Chlamydia, blame MySpace.
- Hanorah Slocum
Will government ever let us marry?
- Viki Marsh
Silently suffered his facial hair experiments.
- Elizabeth Minkel
Tried men. Tried women. Like cats.
- Dona Bumgarner
Leap of faith. Shit, no parachute.
- Katherine Yunker
Inevitably, his obituary didn’t mention me.
- R. Sue Dodea
Read more and listen to the full story at the NPR website.
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my neighbor got Chlamydia because he likes to go out with prostitutes. This is a very nasty disease.’”‘
what brand of baby shoes are good ?,,”
when you are looking for baby shoes, choose those that are made from organic materials.~.
chlamydia can give you lots of painful and itchy moments so always practice safe sex.`;*
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hiya all, i’m really listless on the internet so you all should email me if ya are also, strike up a convo :). or possibly myspace, my name on there is chelsea hrunt
when i first bought my baby shoes, i gave it to my sister’s baby~*’
chlamydia is so groos, my friend got one last year and it was very nasty~-:
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chlamydia is very nasty disease, you’ll get that nasty pus and infection:”;
my baby’s feet are very cute so i always buy the best baby shoes for her:`~
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