Word: parasoled
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Favorite Work of Art: My favorite painting is probably Monet’s Woman with Parasol...
...DOES CHEMOTHERAPY COMPARE WITH YOUR PREVIOUS HEALTH BATTLES--A BRAIN TUMOR AND A HEART- BYPASS OPERATION? [For the brain tumor] they put a parasol on your forehead and cut out a piece of your skull two inches by two inches, and then they take a scoop and go inside and fiddle with your brain. [For the bypass] they had my heart on the table, and I was Code Blue. And then there was the doctor who [mistakenly] diagnosed me with ALS and said I had a short time to live...
...this fairy-tale world, Sam gets a little wild as she celebrates her new freedom with James by eating cotton candy in an amusement park unchaperoned, sliding down a waterslide with her clothes on and spending a date in a rowboat, holding a pink parasol as he holds a small fishing rod. There is one particularly moving scene where Sam eats a slice of pizza and, as the grease slides down her throat, remarks that it “tastes like freedom”—at which point I teared up, remembering my own first taste of delicious...
...HARD There's a murmur, then a babble and then suddenly a roar, and I'm sitting soggy-shoed in a wicker chair, clutching a pink parasol, almost a foot under water. This is white-water rafting, Xishuangbanna-style. Granted, the rapids on this particular stretch of the Nam Baan river, a chocolatey tributary of the Mekong, don't quite deliver Grand Canyonesque white-knuckle thrills. But when you're sitting in a wobbly chair, sliding around atop 20-odd lengths of bamboo lashed together with twine, any white water is, frankly, too much...
...Beauty and the Beast” float from a laptop, which rests on a desk wrapped entirely in pink crepe paper. Colored Christmas tree lights adorned with sparkly pieces of candy line the molding and the drawers. Colorful flower pots sit in the corner, next to a purple parasol. The floor lamp is ornamented with silver chiffon butterfly wings. Printed patterns of pink and red lipsticks and compacts dot the bedsheets. Even the CD holders and the crutches leaning on the wall are painted pink...