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  1. Armistead Maupin _ Michael Tolliver Lives

    footnotes to a feeling
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  2. Armistead Maupin _ Michael Tolliver Lives

    And I'd like Ben there, of course, cuddling me into the void with the usual sweet assurances.
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  3. Armistead Maupin _ Michael Tolliver Lives

    Still, I gave her a call, wondering if she might have lost someone herself, but our talk was limited to the surreal events we'd just watched on television. A crisis does draw people together, but rarely for the right reason. The old wounds flare up again soon enough; the bond lasts no longer than the terror.
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  4. Armistead Maupin _ Michael Tolliver Lives

    Over the next eight years, almost without noticing, I arrived at a quiet revelation. You could make a home by yourself. You could fill that home with friends and friendly strangers without someone sleeping next to you. You could tend your garden and cook your meals and find predictable pleasure in your own autonomy.
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  5. Armistead Maupin _ Michael Tolliver Lives

    Who's Sally Bowles?" asked Ben. I turned and looked at my younger, less theatrical half. "She used to be married to Ansel Adams." "You're kidding?" "Yes, I am," I said. Jake
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  6. Armistead Maupin _ Michael Tolliver Lives

    How old are you?" I hadn't been asked this in a place of business since I was seventeen, when I tried, unsuccessfully, to buy a fifth of Jack Daniel's at a liquor store across the highway from Mr. Grady's gas station. It was just as unsettling to be carded at the other end of my life, for a fucking biscuit, no less, but I answered as civilly as possible. "I'm
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  7. Armistead Maupin _ Michael Tolliver Lives

    You don't have to keep up, dear. You just have to keep open.
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