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Margaret Pilarski

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i'm a feminist, and if you're reading this then you are too, you just might not know it yet. i like to eat cheese and travel, but i'm usually broke and/or spending my money on shoes and cocktail rings. i love dogs, rain, and driving offensively (and putting the last comma in a listed series). i'm se...

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i cried, but don't tell

you know how people say “oh i cry at everything – i even cry at commercials!”

well i always thought they were just kidding. you know, like, who cries at a commercial? it’s 30 seconds of some woman dusting her blinds and dancing around the kitchen with a mop. you cry for clean tabletops, are you serious?

it was sort of like anyone who said that, this neon light went off about their head that flashed “LOSER!” and i would just nod at them and say “yeah, commercials, they’re so deep...” and then i would leave the room and never talk to them again.

well last night i was half-watching tv and in between all the john edwards ads, one made me cry. it was really weird, it seemed like i was laughing or hyperventillating, then all of a sudden i started a one-minute bawlfest.

it was the saddest thing. it was this dog in a cagey thing just sitting or waiting, and and these two pairs of legs walk by, and the dog gets all excited and he’s wagging his tail and looking up at the people... but then they keep walking. THEY KEEP WALKING! and the voice says: for every dog that gets adopted, another doesn’t get adopted. THEY DIDN’T ADOPT THE DOG!

it was this one...

i got teary at my desk just now.

must get dog.