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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Steve”

Steve liked my mind.

And that meant we spent several hours at a weekly farmer’s market talking about Karl Marx, free market enterprise, and general tenets of post-modernism rather than exploring cool booths and being among jolly people.

Steve and I had met via the online dating website I was using. He contacted me and we struck up a simple conversation. After he discovered I had a master of art’s degree in communication studies, he started asking me intellectual questions and began telling me about what books he read.
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A Single Moment

I logged into Facebook this week and read words in the newsfeed that made my heart pound heavy in my chest. Tears sprang into my eyes.

My graduate school colleague Lanette lost her middle child Ian in a car crash. The Texas A&M student was killed as he headed home to Austin.

Everything can all change in a single moment, my friends. One moment.
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