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...I am an outsider, a lesbian, a shikse. The Jewish community is not my community. But as a Jew--as a Jew in a Christian, anti-Semitic society--the Jewish community is, and will always remain, my community. Enemy and ally.
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In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.
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I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.
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We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.
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What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.
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Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.
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Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.
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The more torque I can come up with, the better.
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Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?
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If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.
