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a lot of people ask about it.
they see me spinning it around and around.
a nervous habit, i suppose.

it was made by a woman down the street
who specializes in making rings that live inside
of other rings, so that the inner one
spins and spins.

i came up with the word.
surprise, surprise.

recently i noticed that i didn’t have any bumperstickers
on my car. and i thought it was an indication that i don’t stand
much for anything.

but then i remembered the ring,
and how i wear it every day,
and read it all the time,
and maybe, hopefully, live it.

why story? people ask.
and i say that it’s a reminder to me
that my life should be something worth
writing about.

that everything i do should be worth writing about
and telling about and listening to.

and then i think about our life since january,
and how it’s been exactly that,
and how i’ve done exactly that,
maybe, truly, for the first time.

and it feels good, even though we didn’t ask for this,
to be able to be true
to one’s word,
to the one word,
story.

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if you had a ring and could pick a word,
what would it be and why?

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