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A Series of Breaks

Katrina Obieta


I.                   Breaking Away

I am a twin. For a very long time now, I had been vying to be my own separate person. My parents, or anyone else in our family for that matter, have never treated us as if my twin and I are just one person. I can’t say much for other people, though. For some reason, the general public thinks that because we are identical twins—same not only outside, but even inside, within our genes—that our personalities should be the same way, too. This is not the case.

Growing up, my mother always made us wear the same clothes. The garments would be similar in pattern and design, only differing in colors. We always had the same hair, the same earrings, the same friends, even the same face. As children, it was fun being my twin’s reflection, and vice versa. When I was old enough to realize there was something wrong in the picture, it seemed impossible, then, to alter the way that many people have been viewing us—inseparable, an entity that somehow cannot exist without the other.

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Vision - BMC (debrief FDC experience)

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Vision - BMC

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Vision - BMC

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Impatience (Post Script Series)

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Let me tell you a story about patience…

 

Great

Expectations of cakes and poets.

 

Blue mold is

Milk, eggs, flour, butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt lost. 

 

My poetry is not your trophy.

 

Dear reader,

Reader response theory.

 

Lack

Of curiosity killed the writer

Broken and lonely now.

 

This is the post script.

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Ugly Girl

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“Hello

Beautiful girl,”

Calls the witch of the beach.

 

Mocking

Me in the white rocking chair. 

 

Beautiful rocking chair, beautiful lobby,

But I?

 

I have lived in awe of the clan of yellow-eyed women

No relation to ballerinas.

 

Blocking which other words

Is beauty?

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Discussion Forum

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Please use this space to raise questions, probe possible meanings, and share relevant knowledge, experience, or resources.  

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Acknowledgements

Submitted by alesnick on Sun, 08/26/2012 - 12:41pm

The Breaking Project has many angels without whom it would not have come into being and could not be sustained.  To each and every contributor, thank you for entrusting your work to the Project and by doing so sharing it with other learners and seekers.  For editorial vision, skill, and help, thank you to Ann Dixon, Emma Wipperman, and Melinda Canter.  For giving breath to the spark (believing in the project more constantly than I always could at first), thank you to Xuan-Shi Lim, E. Catanese, Rob Goldberg, Alison Cook-Sather, Darla Himeles, Paul Grobstein, Angela Henry, J.C.Todd, Jody Cohen, Anne Dalke, Alfie Guy, Howard Lesnick, and Pat Sharpe.  

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