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Duane’s nose nudged her hair to the side, exposing the back of her neck. He took a second to let the Acqua di Gioia he’d bought her a week ago serve as a reminder of his good decision-making. Before becoming intoxicated by the scent, he asked her a question he’d answered a month ago. “What […]

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How One Man Became Jaded: Part 5

December 27, 2012 Tunde

Click here to check out the rest of the series. The next three months were a blur of fights and arguments. I became numb to a lot of the bullsh*t. I looked back at a lot of things I put up with and got progressively angrier. In hindsight, I should have just left her alone […]

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How One Man Became Jaded: Part 4

December 18, 2012 Tunde

Click here for the other parts of the series. After we got back together things were going strong for a good four months before we began to hit rough patches. I can’t remember exactly what caused this particular argument, but we were mad at each other for a couple days. The fact that I can’t […]

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How One Man Became Jaded: Part 3

December 12, 2012 Tunde

Click here for part 1 and here for part 2. Fast forward to the end of the summer. Classes are done and I’d gotten to the point where I didn’t fall apart when I saw my Stacey eating lunch during class with Steve. Not only did it hurt, it was embarrassing because everyone knew […]

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How One Man Became Jaded Part II

December 4, 2012 Tunde

For Part 1, click here. A couple weeks before I asked Stacey to be my girlfriend, we had an unfortunate incident involving Steve. Turns out the burglar that took all of Stacey’s stuff hit the entire neighborhood and Stacey didn’t have renter’s insurance. Guess who did though? Yep, Steve, who lived in the same neighborhood […]

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How One Man Became Jaded Part I

November 28, 2012 Tunde

(Names have been changed to protect the not so innocent) It’s general knowledge that women show their love and affection more than men; but when men fall, they fall hard. In the same breath when a man’s heart is broken, he takes it a lot harder than a woman would. Have you ever been around […]

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Dream Crushing: Is It Ever For the Win? Let’s Discuss…

November 6, 2012 Slim Jackson

A few days ago, boobookins and I were sittin’ on the couch with laptops in laps. We don’t stare at each other’s screens, but it was obvious we were both on Facebook. I was checking up on a few folks I hadn’t heard from since the storm. She was lookin’ at pictures of children […]

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Recapping Single Sam: A Few Random Thoughts I Had Along The Way

April 3, 2012 The Mighty Most

Writing Single Sam’s Episodes in Love was a pretty fun exercise for me. As a writer it was an interesting challenge to tell real life stories from a real life friend, who happened to be female, while still trying to find ways to be creative and own the work. The other thing that made it […]

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Single Sam’s Episodes in Love Part 5: All It Takes Is One

March 29, 2012 The Mighty Most

One of the most frustrating things about humanity is our inability to be who we’ve become without having been who we were. These are the kind of arbitrarily deep thoughts I find myself thinking these days. A year without sex will do that to a woman. Part of me can’t help but be annoyed at […]

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Single Sam’s Episodes in Love Part 4: The Butcher

March 22, 2012 The Mighty Most

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A chill ran up my spine. The hairs on the back of my neck stood and, for the life of me, I couldn’t tell whether it was because of the supermarket’s near freezing temperature, or if it were because my mind’s eye had turned to him. I knew I’d be seeing him. As I made […]