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Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.
Junot Diaz
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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
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You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.
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She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
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To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
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- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.
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God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
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You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
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