sharleenmondal.bsky.social
English prof, fiction writer @ Ashland University. Ph.D. University of Washington. Bread Loaf/VONA alum. Reposts/likes aren't endorsements; opinions are solely mine.
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Lyrics.
youtu.be/6Fx8LprPMIU?...
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We just finished reading Ramona Quimby, Age 8 together. So good! It's a trip using my childhood copies with my kid now.
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IMHO, the best feeling is completely forgetting someone exists and moving on with your healthy, full, beautiful life. 💜 (You do get periodic updates of how stalky and miserable they are with screenshots to prove it, like YEARS later, but then you just forget about them again.) This is the way 😊
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Congratulations on this milestone! 💜
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What a beauty 💜
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It's interesting to just see this now 😂 The next time I ran into him was when I was voting (he lives like 2 min from me). He doesn't vote in ward elections but was going out of his way to do so to make sure someone he deemed an undeserving Black man did not get elected. You do you, man.
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So maybe the short answer is: emotionally mature, healthy people who are loving, forgiving, and understand how to live gently. I am so proud every single day I get to coparent with them. Honored to raise kid in such good company (as for me, I do the best I can and they tolerate my terrible jokes 😂).
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I adore our setup, as well as their other kids. I go to their birthday parties. I have my own relationships with them as "fupi" (auntie). And we adults are friends who genuinely love and respect each other. I am so glad kid's dad and I split so that we could all have what we now have. It's amazing.
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I get about half a dozen DMs a year from people going through a painful divorce with kids asking how we do it. The answer is that we are lucky that all of us had really worked on ourselves, and care more about emotional health and love than our family looking any certain way.
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Congratulations!!!
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Now that I'm done: it was *superb*. The story, the wit, the insights about double consciousness/code-switching, the broader questions about justice...extraordinary! (And I love a good literary spin-off, even though I haven't read Huck Finn in years.)
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It is, however, the best MTV Unplugged performance of all time... #PearlJam
youtu.be/vE26dVkCvpw?...
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"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life/I know you'll be the cat/in somebody else's house. But why.../why...whyyyyy...can't it be/oh can't it be miiiiiine..."
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Stunning!
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I love the lines in that last shot. Such a great composition.
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!!!