my other stuff
webcomics/cartoonists
some print comics
autobio. print comics
orange
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09.10.10
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09.10.10
No shades of gray.
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09.10.10
Inordinate pressure to succeed.
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09.10.10
Life changes.
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09.10.10
And I forgot about the word anorexia
until about a year later when it turned out I
wasn’t so different from Jennifer after all.
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09.02.10
With her orange hands.
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09.02.10
And then it was Summer again. I forgot about Jennifer…
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09.02.10
But I still thought her nails we despicable.
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09.02.10
And that she was perfect because she was scared.
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09.02.10
That she bit her pencils out of hunger.
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09.02.10
Once I knew what Jennifer had I could see that the button down shirts covered skinny arms
and not a “perfect young lady”.
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09.02.10
Anorexia I didn’t really get it. In my stable tomboy world there wasn’t any room
for the concept. But I loved the sound. Like “despicable” and “epidermis” , the
other two words I loved that year, to my ears it had an interesting ring.
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08.20.10
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08.20.10
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08.20.10
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08.20.10
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08.11.10
It took less than an hour for “personal reasons” to be translated into English.
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08.11.10
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08.11.10
Miss. Rassariz, our homeroom teacher, explained nothing.
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07.28.10
Then one day she stopped coming to school.
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07.28.10
The color gradually spread.
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07.28.10
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07.28.10
I tried to imagine why.
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07.28.10
I’m not sure when it happened but at
some point that year I noticed Jennifer’s
fingertips had turned pale orange.
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07.13.10
I liked the way it sounded.
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07.13.10
It was my new favorite word that year.
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07.13.10
Secretly I called Jeniffer’s nails despicable.
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07.13.10
My nails were short. Still are.
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07.13.10
Her fingernails were so long they curled.
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06.30.10
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06.30.10
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06.30.10
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06.30.10
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06.30.10
And her handwriting was beautiful.
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06.30.10
She always knew the answers.
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06.22.10
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06.22.10
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06.22.10
Jennifer was in my homeroom. She sat two rows ahead of me and was my opposite. That’s why she caught my eye.
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06.13.10
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06.13.10
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06.13.10
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05.27.10
And I’m still addicted to hair dye…
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05.27.10
I’m confident.
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05.27.10
I’m responsible.
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05.27.10
Besides now I’m an official adult.
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05.27.10
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05.27.10
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05.27.10
And when I was at my most depressed, the only thing I liked about myself or cared about, was the way I looked.
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05.10.10
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05.10.10
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05.10.10
Or that it was an outward expression of inner hostility toward authority.
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05.10.10
You might think, as some people have, that my preoccupation with hair dye was a superficial way of dealing with my all too real and ever changing emotional states.
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04.27.10
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04.27.10
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04.27.10
I bought my first “product” with baby sitting money and never looked back.
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04.27.10
Anyway, by September I needed help.
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04.06.10
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04.06.10
Recently I asked her why.
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04.06.10
My mom never said a word.
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04.01.10
It’s the chlorine.
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04.01.10
“It’s the sun.”
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04.01.10
When people said, “Tracy your hair’s gotten so light”, I was ready.
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03.17.10
The color was a little off more jelly bean yellow than L’ofake blonde.
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03.17.10
Then drying it in the sun.
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03.17.10
Dousing my hair.
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03.17.10
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03.17.10
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03.04.10
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03.04.10
But one day at Gail’s I had an idea.
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03.04.10
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03.04.10
Impatience prevented me from growing longer locks.
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03.04.10
that I wanted too.
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03.04.10
It started the Summer I was 13. My best friend Gail had beautiful, shimmery waist length blonde hair…
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03.04.10
I wish I had a photo for every shade and style but I don’t, just my memories.
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03.04.10
I’m a serial hair dyer. I like to cut it almost as much as I like to color it.
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