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    On Monday night, my cousin’s teen daughters, Solana and Maya, lost their home. It burned to the ground. Literally.     I am beyond grateful Solana and Maya and their mother Stefanie are okay. But they need, well — Everything. If you have extra clothes — emphasis on teenage girl clothes — you […]

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the air moves

    It is — 3:30 in the morning and the air is finally beginning to move. It is still hot air, but not as hot as earlier. And if I close my eyes I can imagine the sound of wind and soft distant traffic is the ocean and I am somewhere near the sea […]

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the places i come from : part iii

  Most of my childhood — Has burned or shaken away. Forget mudslides. Which everyone pretends is an aberration, not a regular thing.   I remember kids taking pieces –– small pieces because it was rubble — of the roof away from a grammar school I attended. The whole administration building went down during a […]

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