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Dear Charlie: thank God she said "no."

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Dear Charlie,

There’s been a clamoring for my story about the one who got away, but didn’t exactly, i.e., the one woman to whom I proposed marriage, whom accepted and then refused, the same woman I still text almost da...

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Dear Richard: High Notes, Low Spirits

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Dear Charlie: who are any of us anyway?

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Thank you for all the kind, heartfelt words about me, my toes, my bike, and my approach to this life now. As time passes, I am beginning to see that getting back on the bike...

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First things first. You don’t get to casually write, “I asked one person on this earth to marry me. She said yes and then no. That’s for another letter,” and then just keep goi...

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  • Richard DeWald

    Retired Critical care/Hospice RN, friend to the dying, now doing #Rstats (#SAS survivor), geek, writer, zen student, he/him.

  • Denise Shelton

    Smillew Award winning writer and editor. Nothing special psychologically, biologically, or sociologically. (Sorry.) I write poetry The New Yorker wouldn’t dare publish and whatever else I want to.\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8☘️

  • Notes from a Tender Democracy

    I am a mother; a sociologist; a wife; a good friend; a writer; a white American woman; a hiker; political; deeply empathetic. I am starting to write to make sense of our current chaos and shared humanity.

  • Charlie Finch

    Essays, fiction, interviews and contests. Writing about adulthood, creativity, technology and how to stay whole in the face of systems designed to grind us down.

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