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My paralyzing fear of death

By Kalani Perry | Published: May 24, 2011
Or maybe it’s just the ends of things. I’m so good at the beginning. But at the end my spectrum ranges from melancholy to madness. I remember the day of my grandfather’s funeral. I was 10. I was home alone. Watching Tijuana Toad and the specter of the end washed over me. I haven’t really [...]
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The ever-living ghost of what once was

By Kalani Perry | Published: January 22, 2011
I remember the moment I realized things were over with my first wife. I put my hand on her knee as she drove to a pumpkin patch, our two children in the backseat giggling. Some CD or other I had made for her, Band of Horses playing beautiful, romantic. And she shook my hand off [...]
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