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I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.

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Rachel Zucker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 1
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I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.
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I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.
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I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
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Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.
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I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.
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Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.
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When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term stream of consciousness - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.
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I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.
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One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.
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I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.
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