Word: home
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glow of my old pink bedroom. Pink wallpaper, pink canopy bed, pink curtains. Six when I picked the hue, I lived with it for 12 years. I quickly tired of it, but never convinced my parents to change it. Now, staring at the plain white walls of my new home, I miss the overwhelming, childish wash of color, remembering how my voice echoed off pinkness in that room. There is something institutional about these walls. Bigger and lighter and emptier and colorless, this house, in spite of its more modern subtleties. It's a house whose rooms have...
...driving through strange neighborhoods, waiting at stoplights whose pauses I do not know, again I am struck by the absence of variance, of movement, of the spectrum I unknowingly came to treasure in my cosmopolitan childhood home. I am alone here. Always accused of being a magnet for disease, a walking accident, it occurs to me that I may have unconsciously picked up another malady...
...college that struck me first, hit me in the face with something I didn't really want to see. Going to school in Massachusetts eight hours away from home and family and friends did not make me a different person. I found this out early in October, from a good teacher if not a famous one: Grays Hall, a Yard dorm. The method of instruction: I fell down the Grays Hall stairs, in front of a well populated Yard that took no notice of the first-year sprawled unceremoniously on the grass...
...went home and called everyone I knew and toldthem not to watch the show," she said...
...went home and called everyone I knew and told them not to watch the show," said Stewart...