June 2005
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Plea 1
An excerpt from an email I sent my father this morning: “Could you tell me a little bit about Histrionic Personality Disorder? A friend had mentioned she thought she suffered from it and asked me to do some reading. I would tend to agree, except that I find it’s easy to fit anyone to any disorder; I hear people of my generation over-diagnose themselves and each other quite...
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Admission 1
On the train back from Chicago, I read a passage from a David Sedaris book that got me thinking. I had just had a conversation with Luciana wherein she revealed that my correcting her grammar bothered her. I pointed out that I truly did not do it in order to make myself appear or feel superior, but, rather, because I thought she would want to learn (or already knew, but had simply slipped up)....