Fiction: Maggie (Part 2)

SOME BACKGROUND: Much like Part 1, this story has grounding in reality…to a point. The plot is all fiction; however, the other characters are based on other people I’ve talked to or met, and the things we do are ones that the original date/hook up and I touched on in our conversations. Like me, she …

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Blind Date, Blind Expectations

Blind Expectations I was a little apprehensive about this bar. Five months earlier I had my encounter with a woman here who thought having a knock-down, drag-out fight with her mother on the phone was the perfect way to begin a first date. The other minor wrinkle with this evening was my bracing for the …

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Is Age Really Just a Number?

When it comes someone’s personal standards, habits or predilections, I’ve always maintained a combination of to each their own and there’s someone out there for everyone philosophy. Love is love – it comes in all shapes, sizes, colors and combinations; and beauty is in the eye of the beholder (I try very hard not to …

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