Part I How happy we are today The feeling will only escape No matter who we blame it on When the thrill is gone, it's ...
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An illusion it will be, so large, so vast, it will escape their perception. Those who will see it will be thought of as insane ...
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You probably think you’ve heard every scary “we went on vacation to a cabin” story ever told, but I promise you, you’ve never heard anything ...
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I never met my mom. Not…really, anyway. She didn’t abandon us; she didn’t die giving birth, I wasn’t put up for adoption, nothing like that ...
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I can feel it coming, slowly but surely. With everything going on, all the stay-at-home orders, I decided to go to the place in which ...
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In our neighborhood, in the town of Wauwatosa, WI, trick-or-treating was initially scheduled for October 27th.  Inclement weather called for a reschedule, so it ended ...
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Our beautiful Kathryn, My life was just about perfect, as close to it as it could be without actually being so. I was young, with ...
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My upbringing was about as traditional as an upbringing gets. My parents were married, I had a younger sister, we lived in a nice suburban ...
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I’ve been here since I was two years old, and by all accounts, I had a normal upbringing. That’s owed to the fact that this ...
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I’ve owned Pinelawn Cemetery, the cemetery that serves the small town in which we reside, for going on 11 years now. Our land is a ...
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The road is a light brown path of dirt that stretches up and down the shallow hills, running straight from end to end before becoming ...
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My wife and I were house hunting. We’d been saving for years to get the down payment together. A lot of struggling and cutting corners ...
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