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Ladies Who DineLucinda Sloan 4:30. It is dinner time. It is the worst of times, it is the best of times. We usually sit together at the same table. Why? As one of us said, “it’s like always picking the same stall in women’s bathrooms”. None of the women at the table are really alike but we are polite, kind and funny. I am sure that none of us would have become friends in the real world. But now we are in the same world, as opposed to the real world where we never would have met. This world is actually like a dorm for ‘independent living’ adu...
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Words Lucinda Heck Sloan She stood for what seemed hours before the mirror without doing a thing. She opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out. All she could see what the uvula at the back of her mouth. She thought hers was too big and immediately closed her mouth. Trying some vocal warmups that she had learned in a theatre class, she hummed, buzzed, and did some tongue twisters. She took deep breaths as she raised her hands above her head and exhaled slowly as she lowered them. These did help her relax, but the tension i...
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