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  <subtitle>Let the Reader Beware</subtitle>
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    <title>Catch and Release</title>
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      <name>Chris</name>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>She only came into my life when I was unprepared. Even after making certain I kept it together for months, even a year once, she outwaited me and always  reappeared right when I went to pot. Went to pot. Lost my shit. Let it all go  and then she appeared. Mind you, she wasn't some sort of angel. She never arrived  just in the nick of time to save me from some catastrophy or another. Quite  the contrary, she would always fuck me worse than I had ever been fucked before  or since. She was no big woops, empirically. She was not the goddess but the  vixen. She was not the amazonian, but the faerie.</p>
<p>To my mind's eye (I never got a picture of her -- never thought of the camera  when she was around for reasons you'll discover soon enough) she was all hair  and slender limbs, she was all middrift and rosebud breasts. She was all addiction  and 12-step, she was all drugs and deficieit. Her heavy chocolate hair cut in  a blunt bob. The smooth dough of her slender form, the thin fingers, the graceful  hands. The bright doe eyes with a sharp edge which never belied the lie of her  posturing. She was pale flanks and black cloth cut to her form. La femme tout  en noir. Lipstick librarian with glossy lips and wire frame specks. Lunettes.  Donna Karan. Yellow slicker -- even the towels in her bathroom are black. In  my mind's eye. Petite. Tiny teeth, little cheeks, think neck, slender thighs  I can almost wrap with my hand. Hips, belly, and the arch of the back. It was  her hair that ensnaired me. It is always the hair that get me.</p>
<p>When she first walked into my life, she was another boy's girlfriend. Whenever  she walks into my life, she is always another's -- she has never been mine.  I should have guessed. She get physically ill whenever she is away from her  addiction for any lenght of time. And since she is not addicted to drugs anymore,  she is addicted to her boyfriend. I am addicted to her; I always crave. I am  addled by her. I feel the sickness of love, I feel the sickness of hate: they  are the same and it is forever nausea for me. It contracts my intestines. I  makes me vomit, it pressed the muscles into pressures that make me rush to the  toilet and express some sort of Freudian &quot;acting out.&quot; Never used  to use physchobabble until her. Until she injected me with she, until the veins  of my body were infected by the girl from San Francisco until the 12-step heroine.  </p>
<p>&#169;10-26-97 04:28p Chris Abraham</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>She only came into my life when I was unprepared. Even after making certain I kept it together for months, even a year once, she outwaited me and always  reappeared right when I went to pot. Went to pot. Lost my shit. Let it all go  and then she appeared. Mind you, she wasn't some sort of angel. She never arrived  just in the nick of time to save me from some catastrophy or another. Quite  the contrary, she would always fuck me worse than I had ever been fucked before  or since. She was no big woops, empirically. She was not the goddess but the  vixen. She was not the amazonian, but the faerie.</p>
<p>To my mind's eye (I never got a picture of her -- never thought of the camera  when she was around for reasons you'll discover soon enough) she was all hair  and slender limbs, she was all middrift and rosebud breasts. She was all addiction  and 12-step, she was all drugs and deficieit. Her heavy chocolate hair cut in  a blunt bob. The smooth dough of her slender form, the thin fingers, the graceful  hands. The bright doe eyes with a sharp edge which never belied the lie of her  posturing. She was pale flanks and black cloth cut to her form. La femme tout  en noir. Lipstick librarian with glossy lips and wire frame specks. Lunettes.  Donna Karan. Yellow slicker -- even the towels in her bathroom are black. In  my mind's eye. Petite. Tiny teeth, little cheeks, think neck, slender thighs  I can almost wrap with my hand. Hips, belly, and the arch of the back. It was  her hair that ensnaired me. It is always the hair that get me.</p>
<p>When she first walked into my life, she was another boy's girlfriend. Whenever  she walks into my life, she is always another's -- she has never been mine.  I should have guessed. She get physically ill whenever she is away from her  addiction for any lenght of time. And since she is not addicted to drugs anymore,  she is addicted to her boyfriend. I am addicted to her; I always crave. I am  addled by her. I feel the sickness of love, I feel the sickness of hate: they  are the same and it is forever nausea for me. It contracts my intestines. I  makes me vomit, it pressed the muscles into pressures that make me rush to the  toilet and express some sort of Freudian &quot;acting out.&quot; Never used  to use physchobabble until her. Until she injected me with she, until the veins  of my body were infected by the girl from San Francisco until the 12-step heroine.  </p>
<p>&#169;10-26-97 04:28p Chris Abraham</p>
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