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2012-11-03 - 6:21 p.m.

I've been away, trying to finish a novel, if you can believe that.

It's about two giants. Really, really tall people. There's a boy giant, an office worker, and he begins the book thinking he's the only one of his kind. He's feeling pretty low. And then, soon, he finds out there's another one, and that it's a girl. He's not allowed to contact the girl, so he decides to build a sculpture, to get her attention. A newspaper reporter, new to the city, covers it, and then someone mails a clipping of that story to the girl giant. But the girl giant is young, only 20, a smart girl who's just finished her first year of college, and she's spent her whole life trying to ignore the fact that she's so weird, and so she refuses to acknowledge this boy giant. Instead, knowing that she will have to face up to her weirdness, she decides to obliterate herself. She gets very drunk, and starts a fight, at a bar, which she loses. She tries to anger her sister, and her parents, and everyone around her, for she knows that she has failed, and that she does not deserve love. But they do not desert her. Instead, despite her failure, they help her, for love is not something that can be explained.

And that's where I am. Page 190. She will meet the boy giant, and at first they will not get along. But then, for a brief day or two, in the sun, they will, and they will, for the first time in their lives, not be alone. And then it will be taken away from them. I've read a lot of sad books.

So that's what I've been doing. I miss writing here.

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