The Naked Opinion

My trouble is that, as I recollect moments from my youth & young adulthood, I relive them emotionally. There were no great traumas, but a wealth of naïveté, so much so that I suffer under the weight of regret as memories flood in. I lose good chunks of time to this & end up...
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Then there's that other pesky legal term, the one we endearingly know as straight-up, goddamned (not by Old Testament standards, though), mothereffing rape, when your objet d'affection doesn't want to reciprocate, but you make it so she or he does, through force, coercion or dddrrruuuggggggiiinnnggg. Emphasis mine.
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(Part of a series designed to help the struggling young writer live a fuller, happier, more productive life.)
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Part 1 He will generally be looked upon as strange or different.  And he will be, of course, since what makes him tick is that mysterious element “X” which his fellow-man seems so well able to do without. – Henry…
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So, you’ve just received your BA. Maybe your Masters. You’re a twenty-something young gun fresh off the campus. And you’re a writer. Or you want to be a writer. You want to make a name for yourself. You know it…
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