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Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.
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In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.
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But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
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What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.
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Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.
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A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Born:
December 31, 1968
(age 55)
Bio:
Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at Boston Review.
Known for:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
This is How You Lose Her (2012)
Drown (1996)
Beacon Best of 2001 (2001)
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