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'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met.
I looked over at the four year old with the big eyes staring at me through the gaps in the wrought iron fence surrounding the yard across the street. Sweating beneath the glare of the July sun, I leaned back from the lawn mower I was just about to start and rubbed the kerchief across my face. Smiling, I asked good-naturedly, “Why not?”
She continued to look at me with eyes too...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met.
“What are you, my mother?”
The profound sadness in her tiny smile instantly made me regret the snide retort. I’ve always hated myself for saying that to her. Of course, I went ahead and dropped out of college anyway but first, we had another cup of peppermint tea together.
I’ve been to a lot of job interviews, taken the stage before hundreds of people, had...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met.
In the twenty-six years since, she must’ve told me that a thousand more times and I imagine those would be the last words I hear from her when my time comes. But the first time is and will forever be, etched perfectly in my memory.
It was my first day of seventh grade in a new town. I arrived at homeroom with ten minutes to spare but she was seated at her desk as if she had been there all day....read more
"'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met."
Col’s comment drew the attention of the four friends congregated around the table they’d commandeered at the Bicentennial Ball.
"You know that chick, Col?” Dalton asked...read more
"'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met."
"Do what?" he replied.
"Make me fall for you. I told you before when we met at the bar," she said "that I could use a man like you."
"So why in the hell," he asked "did you lie to...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met. The love of my life said standing at the bottom of the hill while I was at the top on a handcrafted sled I had made just hours prior. My goal was to race down the hill and sled past the oncoming traffic at rush hour...I do...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met. That is, the first time we met after her death, when she was a spirit.
My name's Serena Harris. I’m twenty-three years old as of yesterday. I’m a gal with big brown eyes and...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met.
That was her way to define the rules that I lived by. Subtle, non-invasive, but ever-present. At one point in my life I had fancied myself my own man. I had lived a life that had...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met. It was lucky for me that I was, not only, being supported by my friend, Harry, but I was also a very productive gym member. What does this mean? With her startling me in the middle of my climb, I didn't plummit to my...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met.
It was the day I tried to rob a bank. It was the day my life changed forever. It was the first day of many that I was on the run.
It’s not that I’m a bad person....read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met.
I was so deeply entwined in my thoughts that it physically hurt to be pulled back to my bleak reality so quickly. I winced as I shifted my body slightly in order to see her.
She was small. That was what I...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met. We were both new in town and a mutual friend had introduced us. We decided to meet in a woodsy park with many walking trails. We were walking down a shaded path in the woods talking when...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met. She has been telling me what to do ever since that day. ‘Ben, do this.’ ‘Ben, take the garbage out, and while you’re at it, do the dishes.’ For sixteen years I’ve put...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met. I paid no attention to her. I strained my muscles in my arms to pull the lifeless form in front of me towards the side of the...read more
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met. But I was too young and foolish to listen at the time. Besides what fifth grader would listen to a girl with red hair, freckles and scabs on each boney knee who could barely be in the second grade? Despite her...read more
"'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met." Mary leaned in closer to her ring of listeners, whispering, “and I ignored her. What could happen after all?”
Mary leaned back, remembering as if it were just yesterday. She...read more
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