Tag: love

• sos judi dench

  The first time I caught my father lying was when I was around 10 years old. It was whatever year that the Razr flip phone was considered sleek and cutting edge. I remember wanting to be just like him. Talk like him, in a corporate American accent far from my mom’s tousled English. Travel like…

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• honda element fanpage

  At Six Flags, we ascend the vertical tracks of what was once the fastest and tallest roller coaster in the world. Holding hands feels odd as on a second date. At 500 feet into the sky, I thought it made sense.  “Are you scared?” Ethan asks 10 feet from the apex. “No,” I say, grasping…

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• snailphobia

  I agreed to get dinner with Isaac and his father, Alain, who is the most French-Frenchman in existence. I met Alain two months into dating Isaac, when he invited me to an all-day Lunar New Year bar crawl in Chinatown and failed to mention that his parents and entire family are in annual attendance. Despite…

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