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The Daily Affirmation Plan

The Daily Affirmation Plan  (1) At the Party, Talking to Colleagues Warm light, corner conversations.   A flush of untucked shirts, pardon me’s, gentle hand on shoulder, passing by, excuse me, coming through. I am barely listening to her, when she says “You know, Jack London wrote that story about me.” “Huh?” I look at my drink, bare bones to ice cubes, I’m melting, I’m melting, I croon in my head like a witchy drunk just converging with the floor. “Jack, the book about the dog that made him quit drinking, you know?   I was the dog.”   She says, seriously, says. I burst into laughter.   I don’t even make the catty remark about her being a perfect bitch too, I am not even sure they existed in the same era and I am certain she only watched the Disney version of any book in her general education vocabulary and remedial inner workings of a brain.   I walk away, fully awake, still laughing and shaking my head and she mouths “Wha?” at me while I turn my head back...