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  1. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    I thought about this for days, just as I thought of the special-ed teacher I met in Pittsburgh. "You know," I said, "I hear those words and automatically think Handicapped, or, Learning disabled. But aren't a lot of your students just assholes?""You got it," she said. Then she told me about a kid - last day of class - who wrote on the blackboard, "Mrs. J____ is a cock master."I was impressed because I'd never heard that term before. She was impressed because the boy had spelled it correctly.
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  2. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    For to witness majesty, to find yourself literally touched by it - isn't that what we've all been waiting for?
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  3. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    In his work shirt and underpants, he looked powerful but also cartoonish, like a bear dressed up for a job interview.
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  4. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    she was the human equivalent of a storm cloud.
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  5. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    In 2004, I offered priority {book}-signing to smokers, the reason being that, because they didn't have as long to live, their time was more valuable. Four years later my special treatment was reserved for men who stood five-foot-six and under. "That's right, my little friends," I announced. "There'll be no waiting in line for you." It seemed unfair to restrict myself to men, so I included any woman with braces on her teeth."What about us?" asked the pregnant and the lame. And because it was my show, I told them to wait their f***ing turn.
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  6. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    The better country club operated on the principle that Raleigh mattered, that its old families were fine ones, and that they needed a place where they could enjoy one another's company without being pawed at. Had we not found this laughable, our country club might have felt desperate.
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  7. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    We started when I was in the fourth grade, which would have made me ten, I guess. It's different for everyone, but at that age, though I couldn't have said that I was gay, I knew that I was not like the other boys in my class or my Scout troop. While they welcomed male company, I shrank from it, dreaded it, feeling like someone forever trying to pass, someone who would eventually be found out, and expelled from polite society. Is this how a normal boy would swing his arms? I'd ask myself, standing before the full-length mirror in my parents' bedroom. Is this how he'd laugh? Is this what he would find funny? It was like doing an English accent. The more concentrated the attempt, the more self-conscious and unconvincing I became.
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  8. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    The people I hung out with in my early twenties were middle-class and, at least to our minds, artistic. We'd all turned our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it."
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  9. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    Here I am, just turned fifty, and I forgot that my father isn't dead yet!
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  10. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.
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  11. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    ...but wasn't everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how complex, solved in a timely fashion by either a professional or a hobbyist? That's the impression you get from British books and TV shows. Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hetty Wainthropp, Inspector George Gently: they come from every class and corner of the country. There's even Edith Pargeter's Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine monk who solved crimes in twelfth-century Shrewsbury. No surveillance cameras, no fingerprints, not even a telephone, and still he cracked every case that came his way.
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  12. David Sedaris _ Let's Explore Diabetes with

    They did not live in a child's house, we lived in theirs.
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