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My neighbor has OCD–a fact I just recently learned. For the longest time I believed she simply hated me, or that she thought I was a psycho, and here’s why: she wouldn’t get on the elevator with me. We’d wait together by the elevator bank, the little indicator light glowing silently between us, and when the doors…

I received quite a few comments on my recent breakup post, but one really stuck with me. A friend of mine had recently gone through a breakup herself, and the story behind it was so horrible my immediate response was, “Wow, you win. What a !@#?@.” I feel pretty comfortable saying, not only as her…

When I say this happened to a friend and not me, I really actually mean it. My friend had a dinner party at her summer place with some old friends–two couples, plus herself and her own boyfriend. Drinks went around (she herself abstained) and things got merry. One of the guys accidentally broke something; I…

I was recently reminded of an incident from my early days in New York. Back then, I was surviving on a daily ration of ramen and $1 egg drop soup. I considered it my NYC diet, even though I never lost weight and my sodium levels shot through the roof. Nevertheless, I had the job…
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