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• things that happened while i was gone

  November 11, 2013

  So, 2 of you asked about when I'd be coming back and writing again. It really makes me feel good knowing I left such a HOLE IN THE OPEN DIARY COMMUNITY. jk. It's actually been easier to stay away from this place than I thought it would be. I miss it sometimes but for the most…

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• he went to the field to die

  August 23, 2013

  I'm gonna put this here as a note dump so you won't have to scroll through so much text to leave a note/respond to mine.  I'm so nice. "Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in a man. And all those who have not made the gestures necessary to live their…

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• how i became brannon, part IV

  August 17, 2013

  part IV: death of an instrument  "When I was of age I saw a gate so wide and a path so broad for the taking But the road to everything led to a cliff so I sprawled out naked and aching... Christmas with my sister.   I used to rock the white boy fro.  I…

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• how i became brannon, part IV (continued)

  August 17, 2013

  The day after I got my lip pierced.     This girl and I had a date & "talked" until she blew me off for a jock. Christmas vacation with Sam. Good hair. The student center became my sanctuary. This girl was so good to me.   I discovered Photoshop and filters. Haven't l...

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• how i became brannon, part V

  August 17, 2013

  part V: dead and varied  "Now that I'm old I see the light I see it was never there Everything leads to nothing nowhere and I don't even care..." -Showbread, The Death (Anorexia Version) Back home. Self-portrait and a big favorite among my FB friends. My grandmother at me at Christ...

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• how i became brannon, part I

  August 17, 2013

  A note about multiple entries:  I wanted to write about my life (and death and subsequent limbo status) as one final comprehensive entry.  I underestimated how long that entry would be.  I sorted my life into 5 parts so when I exceeded Open Diary's characte...

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• how i became brannon, part II

  August 17, 2013

  part II: life of pie "When I was small I reached up so high and grasped at the morning star Now the wormwood topples down on me and smashes all of my parts... Not even ashamed.   I can't remember how it started but it wasn't always like what it turned into.  I think my…

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• how i became brannon, part III

  August 17, 2013

  part III: artist in an ambulance  "When I was a child my bones spread out like peacock feathers alive Now the feathers wilt like cancerous boils leaving sagging pores in my hide...   I remember not wanting my picture taken. I felt huge and miserable.   I added this picture jus...

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• how i became brannon, part II (continued)

  August 17, 2013

      With my grandmother.   Elementary school was fine.  I did well and made friends and was a good, polite student.  I remember sticking my face in a gigantic picture book of the United States map when I was in 2nd grade.  With the huge cardboard pages covering my he...

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