Derek Heckman
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Writer and schoolmarm. Not coming back for thirty percent. (he/him)
Washington, DC
Joined March 2016
Thread of my stuff if anyone would like to read it. You don’t have to, but it would be cool if you did. Some of it is pretty good:
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I can, in fact, tell you exactly what goes on here
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And what if the soft animal of my body loves to walk on its knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting???
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This tweet sums me up more than anything else I’ve ever written
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“Welsh rarebit with a poached egg on top, not too runny, and bacon, scones, butter, cream, jam (not strawberry), pot of lapsang and some sausages.”
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This is my favorite Nora Ephron line. I think about it all the time
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I have poor body image because I grew up with unrealistic standards of the male body
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Unwilling but duty-bound, tottering on the edge of faith and self-preservation, I am much like Greene’s nameless priest, I think, driving to work at my preschool while listening to a podcast about Julie and Julia
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Just saw an ad about how meta is investing in american jobs that ended with a shot exactly like this
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Child: “Mr. Derek, my brother said sorry to me this morning, but he didn’t even do anything!” Me, a recovering Catholic: “I do that sometimes”
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Friend just showed his girlfriend both Butch Cassidy AND The Verdict and I’m currently waiting to hear which Paul Newman she thought was hotter
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Really like that this book is shaping up to be Kung Fu but with an alcoholic priest. Impeccable structure
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