Author: Sherry
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Brilliant Disguise
Most people, when they hear a capsuled question regarding “the truth”, slide back to the infamous line from “A Few Good Men” where Jack Nicholson shouts to Tom Cruise, “You can’t handle the truth!” It’s a great decree and one I’ve pondered a few times myself. It makes me question, do we sanitize our answers… Read more
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Cover Me
On Saturday, a tomato at Shop Rite made me lean on my cart for support. This is the problem with grief. It surrounds you like fog and you can’t see your way out of the haze. My dad passed away almost 20 years ago, and losing him again, this way, that he was never my… Read more
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2 Sides to Every Story
I have never really believed the aphorism that there are ‘2 sides to every story’. This is mainly because there is the ‘story’, which is just the facts or the event, and the ‘sides’, which are really only different perspectives while attempting to incorporate mitigating connections. Jeffrey Dahmer, for example, killed seventeen men and boys… Read more
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Family Tree
It’s difficult when you are an adult and find yourself an orphan, for lack of a better word, by the eventual death of both parents. In truth, you have all the required skills for the successful continuance of your path in life, but the loss takes you to the edge of a cliff that leaves… Read more
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23 And Me (And You)–(The Discovery of You)
As some of you know, I am a writer, but I want to preface this with the fact that this will be a rough draft because as I am currently editing my life and that’s turning out to be a bigger job than processing if I have used an extra comma or the wrong “their”.… Read more