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overheard in my bedroom

Sunday 5 November 2006 | I like a cookie

Unnarrator: [underneath duvet, semi-delirious/hypochondriacal] What if it’s not a cold? The boys had whooping cough. What if I caught whooping cough?
The Brujo: [firmly] You don’t have whooping cough.
Un: [suspicious of childless boyfriend’s certainty] How do you know?
Brujo: Because I heard it when when I was teaching, and it’s really dramatic. [Demonstrates dramatic yertling cough.] When […]

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kind of a late start, really…

Sunday 5 November 2006 | I like a cookie

From the classified section of the Santa Fe New Mexican:
“Teacher Assistant—Santa Fe County Head Start seeks to fill year-round PT position and summers-off positions working with children ages 35.”
And a scratch-your-head, well-duh headline:
“DEADLY SHOOTING MAY HAVE BEEN HATE CRIME”

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