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“Surprise!!!!”

Mom walked up behind me, and in the second before I turned around, I had a flashback.

I was in elementary school. The inside of Coker’s Department Store was a cave. Fluorescent lights spotlit stuff. Clothes and shoes. Sheets and blankets. China and fancy table linens.

And lingerie. Racks and racks of lace and silk, elastic and cotton.Continue Reading

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1999. I had an idea. The internet was an unwieldy behemoth few people understood.

Especially me.

Still, my idea gnawed at my insides. Pounded on the underpinnings of my skull. I nurtured it for weeks, before finally speaking it aloud.Continue Reading