Alias April | Chen Rafaeli
"Flights" is already taken -but I traveled a lot, and I continue to, including falling down the rabbit holes. Thoughts and rants about being on the go and staying put, whatever it means. PS scratch it I have no idea. Not yet.
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“A Little Story I Learned in NY” (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publisheda little story i learned recently (2009) in NY- some rich guy backed right into my rental car in the middle of manhattan and i spent like an hour with some kind of community guard waiting for the cops: His great-grandmother died the day after he was born. They told her that she had a great-grandchild and she said, now i can die, and did die the next day. I guess this makes him the oldest of the bunch, two brothers and three
9/22/26 (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published1) Read “Lolita” in the original, at last (bought in a local store, “Where is the letter N? I can’t find it!”)- wow, love it even more if such thing is possible. Some books- I only became slightly offended on Mann’s behalf- I take it Nabokov didn’t think of him much 2) Roaming the moors still, I mean- walking the streets Whe
Princess (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedShe seemed Minnie-Mousey and grotesque, But not to a dauntless Knight He thought “This Princess is worth of death” With throbbing ache, day and night He looked at her, fey, with dance in her step From under the heavy eyelids Oh, how he wished to hold and to have All of her, from heart to limbs He chased her, and chased her, until one day He picked her up, hugged her waist They rode, and “Princess is wort
One Party (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedOnce, we got an English homework assignment. Which I couldn’t do. The problem was not English per se but answering the assignment question. The question was: “Explain why countries abroad often have several political parties - but there is only one party in the Soviet Union?” I, a relatively bright middle-schooler, thought and thought, and the more I thought the more I got confused. So, I waited for my Mom to return home fro
"The Valley of Amazement" (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedOnce I was asked, is it true indeed That parents love just the same their kids, if they have more than one, Isn’t it Unspoken convention, something to aspire? And I thought and said then: no, not quite, As each child has their own light. Walk rainbow, wander in dark to see A blinding sun, or elusive St Elmo’s fire. You’re same whenever you float or climb, And yet you’re slightly transformed each time Because woods change us
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