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		<title>Please believe me when I tell you that she already owns Goodnight Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our first two years after college, my group of friends went through what I consider to be a pretty typical period of pathological attachment to one another as we tried to avoid the inevitable slide into renters&#8217; insurance and grad school and career paths and general adulthood. For that time we couldn&#8217;t go more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, is that what it&#8217;s like?: A history of my failure to accurately describe books using other books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s about zombies in the same way that Jurassic Park is about dinosaurs, which is to say that it&#8217;s really about humanity and the haunting fear that our inner natures will bring about our destruction much faster than any common threat to us as a group in the same way that Jurassic Park is really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cristinstickles.com/2011/11/08/oh-is-that-what-its-like-a-history-of-my-failure-to-accurately-describe-books-using-other-books/</link>
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		<title>Cool, but rude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mental timeline for how long my mother has been running the teen anger management groups for her high school is based on three things: one is that I can&#8217;t remember a time when I didn&#8217;t refer to them as The Mean Girls based on that crowning achievement in film (Movies I can&#8217;t not watch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cristinstickles.com/2011/09/10/cool-but-rude/</link>
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		<title>Riding the train with my brother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each May, all of publishing jams itself into the Javits center for BEA, which ostensibly occurs so we can all have meetings/ do business/ promote books. With everyone under one roof it kind of becomes an unintentional research lab for any potential Christopher Guest-style mockumentaries on books that I hope to see released during my lifetime, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minions: Tell me what to wear to all these weddings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember basically nothing from Kindergarten other than the family urban legend that grew from my behavior in that class which posited that I was incapable of making friends. Maybe not so much &#8220;incapable of&#8221; as &#8220;unconcerned with.&#8221; Cousin Danny was in my Kindergarten class, and since I knew him from when I was something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maggie and Kyle got married but it is still all about me, fyi.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maggie &#38; Kyle got married yesterday and it was, as someone aptly noted at the cocktail hour, The Oscars of Our Friendship. For my Brooklyn crew, it doesn&#8217;t get any better than this&#8211; everyone in suits and dresses, open bar, Motown Philly on the playlist, plenty of opportunities to pretend that you are on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cristinstickles.com/2011/05/30/maggie-and-kyle-got-married-but-it-is-still-all-about-me-fyi/</link>
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		<title>at an uncharacteristic loss for words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I only took one Linguistics class in college, and we spent most of our session time arguing about the gorilla who used sign language to say &#8220;water bird&#8221; after seeing a swan on a lake, and whether or not this represented actual language manipulation or just a mere combination of learned nouns. I rooted against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cristinstickles.com/2010/08/24/at-an-uncharacteristic-loss-for-words/</link>
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		<title>all the time in the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kids, I&#8217;ve got some free time on my hands. I won&#8217;t go into the details for a variety of reasons largely related to the legal document I signed granting me all this free time and my hunch that it&#8217;s somehow contingent on me not getting all Internet Jerry Maguire about it, and also my struggle to find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cristinstickles.com/2010/07/07/all-the-time-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>The Year of the Tiger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no clue whatsoever how to play golf, despite those many semesters of high school gym where I devoted as much of my energy as possible to playing it without getting sweaty because no one showered after gym in my high school, and then joining a sorority where I would forge a very close friendship with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cristinstickles.com/2010/02/22/the-year-of-the-tiger/</link>
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		<title>Cause I&#8217;m saving all my love for you, F. Scott Fitzgerald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I look forward to going to the airport the way normal people look forward to leaving the airport. It&#8217;s a weird happy place, but it&#8217;s MY happy place, and this is a good thing because my job allows me to visit quite a few of them over the course of the year. As long as [...]]]></description>
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