HeyJaredAndrea Hoag
Book Critic. Essayist. Travel Writer. Charter Member of the Cat-of-the-Month Club. I will probably steal your pen. Work appears in: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, Fodor’s.
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The Most Important Advice of My Life (opens the original)
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I was 19 years old when I finally summoned my courage and confessed the thing I’d done behind my parents’ backs at the Sunday dining room table. Without discussing it with them—and we were great ‘discussers’ in my family—I’d marched right into Strong Hall on the University of Kansas campus and switched my major from psychology to Italian. In that moment, I’d never been so sure of anything in my life.But now it was time to reveal what I’d done. What would a girl like me do with an Italian major?
Our Breasts: A Love Story (opens the original)
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You’ve got your hands down the front of my wedding dress. This marriage is a mistake and we both know it but neither of us can stop laughing.Each time you think you’ve got my breasts arranged so they’ll fit into the tight bodice, you pull on the zipper and one pops right back out again. Giggling consumes us, tears of laughter streaming through our chalky blush.My mother is back to knock on the door to hurry us along. Our eyeliner will have to be fixed. Once we get going like this there’s really
Cut Here (opens the original)
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Of course none of this would have happened if I were better at math.It’s summer and the dark, unfamiliar hallways of Lawrence High School intimidate me at age 13. But summer school is for dummies like me. And him.I’ve loved this boy since the 6th grade.That first autumn of junior high school, I arrived back in Kansas just a few days before classes start… Read more
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