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Sophie Dover

Just Add Pee

May 7, 2003

By my own precise design, I have always aspired to be what women’s magazines pithily refer to as a DINK ? double income, no kids. My own my mother says that kind of thinking can only lead to being a SKANK ? single, killjoy and no kids What she fails to realize is that I [...]

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Alas!

August 7, 2002

It’s not that I shoplifted per se, I don’t even shop – let alone for clothes. I’ve evolved past the “hunter-gatherer” stereotypes. Moreover, I have the fashion sense of a color-blind chameleon, which is to say I wear a lot of black. Many women dress to camouflage their perceived flaws. I dress not to be [...]

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Secretary

July 4, 2002

Let me tell you about corporate power. Our company is the perfect specimen of the multinational conglomerate, so diverse in its operations, so vast in its holdings that, in our competitors’ commercials, they simply refer to us as Brand X. My boss, Mr. Gamete, is in acquisitions and development. There is a constant barrage of [...]

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Le Temp

June 17, 2002

Anyone who’s done a modicum of living knows that one’s career trajectory is never how it was imagined when a child. I, for example, am not a veterinary pioneer or a superhero. I do not remove a thorn from a paw or save the day or live forever. I am a temp ? a sufficiently [...]

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