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Grandma said you've got to collect before you select. So I did.
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MOTHER
I phoned my mother to greet her for Mother's Day. She no longer speaks; she grunts, no doubt because she's highly sedated from the pain medication. My sister S, who sat by her side, asked her gently, "Mom, are you... Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2013 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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A GOOD MAN
I married a good man, a decent man, a funny man. After more than a decade since we first met, he's still that same kind of man. But we're no longer married. We now live on nearly opposite sides of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 20, 2013 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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VALENTINE'S DAY 2013
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I decided to ask my true love for what I wanted most: a can of Elnett hairspray. Forget a box of chocolates and overpriced roses; I much prefer a large bag of Maltesers... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2013 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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MANILA MISSIVES #1 - LOST IN SPACE
My mother looks at me straight in the face -- but she's not there. When I look at her I remember the mother I've always known: strong, feisty, independent. I know she's still all these things, but now her limbs... Continue reading
Posted Dec 10, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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30 OF 30: EVERYTHING BUT THE (GIRLY) GIRL
Posted Oct 30, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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29 OF 30: TODAY'S RANT
These days I find myself wishing people would simply stop trying to impose their personal beliefs on others, thinking their way is the only way, that it's the right way. There is a thin line between advocating for one's convictions... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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28 OF 30: HAPPY EVER AFTER
I still remember the first time I heard that fairytales don't come true, that there is no "happily ever after." I misunderstood the lesson then, as I misunderstood it for a long time afterward. At first I thought it meant... Continue reading
Posted Sep 20, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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27 OF 30: RIP HELEN GURLEY BROWN
Sometime in my early 20s, after I'd moved into my own apartment and decided to put off my last semester of college due to sheer lack of time from working two jobs, I received an unexpected visit from a school... Continue reading
Posted Aug 14, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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26 OF 30: HOW DO YOU KNOW?
I've been asking the same question for the past year and a half, practically since I met him. How will I know? He was 16, partly blind and deaf, eerily silent, arthritic, and showing signs of canine alzheimer's. You can... Continue reading
Posted Aug 9, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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25 OF 30: HOME
I woke up feeling thoroughly unhinged today; for a while there I wasn't sure if I'd just had a dream because it still felt so real to me. All I can remember now is that I'd found myself sitting inside... Continue reading
Posted Aug 3, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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24 OF 30: NOT YET AT THE FINISH LINE
No one has probably noticed, but I'll 'fess up anyway: I didn't get to finish 30 blog posts in 30 days like I set out to do a month ago. Bummer. But on the bright side, I've completed 24 posts... Continue reading
Posted Aug 1, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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23 OF 30: THE RIDE OF MY LIFE
The other day I went on my first ferris wheel ride. Big whoop, people may say with an eyeball roll and a smirk. But to me, it really was. It's not just because I'm the furthest thing from an adrenaline... Continue reading
Posted Aug 1, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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22 of 30: DRESS YOU UP
Posted Jul 31, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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21 OF 30: NO MOMMA
One of the things I will never know is what it's like to be a mother. They say "never say never" -- but this, this I know. Even when I should have known, I didn't. I still remember my doctor... Continue reading
Posted Jul 30, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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20 OF 30: MY SISTER GETS MARRIED
I just got back from a weekend trip. My younger sister got married! She and I may only be a year apart but I've always been quite protective of her because all our lives she was so much smaller than... Continue reading
Posted Jul 30, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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TO GIGI AT 16
Dear Me, I know how absolutely terrified you are to be in college now, at school with boys for the first time in your life and surrounded by people who seem to do better at everything than you are capable... Continue reading
Posted Jul 23, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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DRESS YOU DOWN
I knew this gal who used to come to work looking like she had dressed herself with nothing more than Ace bandages wrapped around her torso; on certain days you thought that if she had arrived draped in a bath... Continue reading
Posted Jul 23, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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17 OF 30: HUSBANDS AND WIVES (A PROLOGUE, OF SORTS)
My friends and I were talking about husbands and wives the other night. About husbands cheating on their wives and wives cheating on their husbands. About why they do it, about the male code of silence when a buddy is... Continue reading
Posted Jul 21, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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MEN AND WOMEN: FRIENDS ONLY?
I have a girlfriend who can't name all the men she's slept with. She can remember vividly, however, a handful from early on as well as the few who came along the last couple of years (she's slowed down her... Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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15 OF 30: PARDON THE DELAY
I started to write about men and women being "just" friends and found myself sitting at my desk for a bit, ruminating on my history regarding this topic. I suppose I can blame it on withering brain cells, but I... Continue reading
Posted Jul 18, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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14 OF 30: NEVER TOO LATE
The youngest in our family arrived only a year and three months after I came into this world. We could have been virtually twins -- except for the fact that we were nothing alike. We even looked nothing alike. While... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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A HEAVY LOAD
At this moment I'm having an interesting -- quite revealing, actually -- conversation on Facebook. I updated my status with what I thought was an unabashedly romantic statement the librettist and theatrical producer Oscar Hammerstein II made to then-Dorothy Blanchard... Continue reading
Posted Jul 16, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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11 of 30: TOO MUCH REALITY, AND NOT NEARLY ENOUGH
I keep wishing reality shows would just go away, that people would lose their appetite for them the way we all wish we could lose our jones for crunchy, fatty food and sugar. Unfortunately, both are guilty pleasures that many... Continue reading
Posted Jul 16, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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THE TALK
Most of my friends are parents; I can count on one hand who among my nearest and dearest are not. This means that for many years my phone was awfully quiet. My girlfriends, who once called me with their relationship... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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9 OF 30: WHAT'S WRONG WITH "LOVE"?
Call me old-fashioned but I don't get why anyone would spell "luv" instead of "love." For heaven's sake it's only one more letter, one more keystroke. One. I'm not referring to it in the sense of how the English say,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2012 at GIGI GOES GAGA
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