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St. Linus the Evangelist
ABC recently ran its annual showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas, one of the defining Christmas rituals of my childhood. After the cartoon aired this year, my Facebook feed overflowed with love for Charlie Brown, and for Charles Schulz: “Thank you, Charles Schulz,” wrote one friend, “for....
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Waiting on Hilarity
I have a confession to make. The kind of confession that reveals you as someone who is more pathetic than depraved. I once had a profile on eharmony.com. And by “once,” I mean “recently,” and by “had,” I mean “waiting for my membership to end so that I can close the profile once and for all and forget that....
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Embodied Mercies
The summer I turned nineteen, I lived with my father in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. I spent most of the summer wandering: I rode the Blue and Brown Line trains for hours, making notes in my journal about the graffiti, the miles of telephone wires, the lots where short Mexican men sold gleaming....
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