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10.1.25: Untitled 1 #83

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     she knew what was going to happen, and she didn’t care   now we were talking about the supreme court, and the fact that Ruth Ginsburg left the court when a republican was in office—meaning that a republican judge was going to end up taking her place.  we were lamenting our fortunes just a bit—because […]

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9.30.25: Untitled 1 #82

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     Ah, yes, Anna Karenina was a little hurt, i could tell.  i could try a little harder, in the future, but i couldn’t undo what had been done; on the other hand, she thought i was cute—when, that is, i wasn’t constantly putting her down or saying that she hugged somebody too long.  i

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9.27.25: Untitled 1 #81

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    Now, I was in DC for a few days for my brother’s surprise birthday party: therefore there was like a one in ten billion chance of running into Anna Karenina as opposed to a one in ten trillion chance or something like that—furthermore, if i chanced upon Anna Karenina, I’d run and around the

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9.25.2025 Untitled 1 #80

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12      Weird: Anna Karenina waved at me—now, i know that Anna Karenina waving at the camera didn’t mean that Alex knew anything about me—but one of the things about schizophrenia (apparently, even if you’re taking your medication), is that everything seems to have some greater purpose when it comes to the big picture.  Naturally,

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9.24.25: Untitled 1 #79

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     she wants to win more than she wants to change the world   and i can’t say that i wasn’t a strategic thinker myself: indeed, things can get nasty when it comes to free health care and a living wage (thirty dollars an hour).  I was willing to do almost anything to get our Anna

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9.23.25: Untitled 1 #78

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     i’m not digging in yet   i’m on the verge of digging in   are you kidding me?   Is this for real?  but we knew that you had to run for president when the people wanted you to run for president—if you turned them down, then they’d be let down, and they might look elsewhere.  even

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9.22.25: Untitled 1 #77

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     Anna Karenina was pissed: she said something about me trying to critique her into place in order to insert my dominance over her.  I didn’t think that was the case, but she was in a bad mood, so, instead of getting argued out of my mind (which is something I used to do with

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9.21.25: Untitled 1 #76

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      i want to be the president: i don’t care about anything else   but that wasn’t true, or, if it was, she meant that everything she does is consistent with a presidential arc.  Anna Karenina was back to asking me all kinds of questions that were difficult to answer, and I answered them, and I

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9.20.25: Untitled 1 #75

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     don’t you love me anymore?  i just want you to look past what you perceive as hunger; immerse yourself in your work.  but, as is often the case, in order to do the really fun things that we want to do, we have to build up to it with a series of seemingly inconsequential

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9.19.25: Untitled 1 #74

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     you seem too happy to be devastated—that was my assessment of how Anna Karenina was handling the likelihood that she would be the next president.  that was all well and good, and it was great to see her feeling good.  Of course i still suspected that things could get a little better for her—she

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