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Wednesday, May 15, 2019
No matter how much I realized I’d done wrong since I’d gotten married, how selfish and self-centered I’d been, this parallel just brought it all home
Esther Kurtz
Esther is boring and normal, bananas in her yogurt make her very happy. She lives in NJ with her husband, children and many opinions
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Wednesday, May 08, 2019
For two days, I left the 21st century, traveled figuratively back 56 years, and tried to live my grandmother’s lifestyle
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Wednesday, May 08, 2019
“You want to know the truth? No one likes supermen, or superwomen. They just make the rest of us feel inadequate”
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Wednesday, May 01, 2019
I had one goal tonight: Shut Leah down. Right now I view it as my chesed of a lifetime, or a marriage to be exact
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019
What did I have that could pass for a costume, that was easily removable, and wasn’t mortifying in the first place?
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Wednesday, April 03, 2019
“What are your Purim plans?” Mommy was finally taking initiative in this conversation, but of course she had to bring up something I don’t want to talk about. Not with her, at lea ...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
I dialed Ari, but I was too late, I knew, and I felt a pit in my stomach. I should’ve at least told him I was hiring Linda before I did it
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
“First things first,” Ari said, reaching for a bag I’d just noticed. He pulled out a flattish square orange box printed with a bold H. No. He didn’t really buy me a Hermes scarf
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019
It was one o’clock now, I hadn’t cleaned up from Shabbos at all, I was just sitting on the bathroom floor — not crying, just alone
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019
The masks that conceal who we really are and instead project the image we prefer people see? What do we gain — and lose — by donning them?
