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What it’s Like When Your Father Dies…

Part 1 (Wednesday): Singing the Jeff Buckley Version of ‘Hallelujah’ in the car while crying…

35 min readMay 16, 2023

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What it’s Like When Your Father Dies…

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Allison

Part 8: The Look On Your Face

As my darling father was dying, he experienced something called Anisocoria. It was after Nina’s explicit instructions that he let go, and…

3 min readJul 21, 2020

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Quarantine: a month or something.

This painting is called “I Told You Guys I Could Paint an Owl.” I would like to thank the barn owl from Wikipedia who is my muse.

2 min readApr 18, 2020

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Quarantine: a month or something.

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Allison

Quarantine: Day 12

We did little shopping runs, and it was a production. We pick up supplies (beer, cheese, beets, mustard, meat). Everything is limited to…

2 min readMar 26, 2020

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Quarantine: Day 12

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Quarantine Part 1: Mass Observation

In 1937, the British government started a project called Mass Observation that was meant to record the mundane life of citizens during…

4 min readMar 24, 2020

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Quarantine Part 1: Mass Observation

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Rivers Til I Reach You

Unloading dishes in my kitchen in Pasadena with the music on, and boom, I’m collapsing with grief because a song came on we sang a lot, as…

2 min readMay 16, 2019

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Part 9: It Is Raining (Sunday)

It is raining and my father’s body is somewhere else.

3 min readJan 16, 2019

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It’s His Birthday

“Hello little brother. I’m calling to tell you happy late birthday and I love you. I hate calling people on their actual birthdays because…

3 min readJan 12, 2019

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This bad feeling

My anxiety has been through the roof. It is a privilege, I think, to live in the modern world with all of its luxuries and still have the…

3 min readOct 5, 2018

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Part 7: The Last

The last thing my father ever ate was watermelon. I cut up a giant watermelon on Wednesday morning, and I think he had 4 or 5 pieces. From…

6 min readJul 28, 2018

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Allison

Allison

Welcome to my LiveJournal! Solzhenitsyn fan girl | My interests include obese pets, slow motion battle scenes & mean Cicero quotes. These are my first drafts.

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