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very long-distance relationship

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2006.03.04

It's funny, maintaining a relationship with someone on the other side of the Pacific. We'd only dated a few times before I was booted from her country but we're doing quite well online.

It's also refreshing being in a relationship that's not fraught with baggage. I almost don't know how to behave without having to indulge a neurotic partner in "down days" and self-destructive behavior of every kind. I guess in this circumstance I'm clearly the unstable one. Dang.

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov