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I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.

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Sloane Crosley
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 3
Essayist
Journalist
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New York City
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I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing.
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Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.
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The Darkness at Irving. Hope to have as much fun doing anything ever as these guys have on stage.
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They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour.
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For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.
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and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.
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