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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 10

Posted on 12/22/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 Update: I have decided to take the text of this post down until I have a chance to revise and repost it. … Continue reading →

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 9

Posted on 12/16/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 It’s funny how memory works. When I wrote before that I could not identify at all with Walter’s fantasy about fucking a woman to … Continue reading →

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 8

Posted on 12/14/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I have been home, laid up with a severe case of gout, and so I have had the time to work on this more than in the recent past. I have been gratified, really gratified, by the responses. Thank you. … Continue reading →

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 7

Posted on 12/13/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 The students in a remedial composition class I’m teaching during my second semester as a college professor are reading aloud and commenting on fables they’ve written over the … Continue reading →

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 6

Posted on 12/8/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 The next words I want to give you are not mine: During the course of the Independent Study work I did on personal essays this semester and when I was … Continue reading →

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Reviewer Sought

Posted on 10/19/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

This is a bit awkward for me, but people have responded so positively to the “My Daughter’s Vagina” series–which I will get back to as soon as my work schedule permits–that I hope what I want to ask will not … Continue reading →

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 5

Posted on 9/28/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 “Are you a virgin?” I”d been trying to ask Jennifer this question almost from the moment our relationship had become physical. She looked surprised, but not–as I had feared–offended. “Are you?” she … Continue reading →

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 4

Posted on 9/1/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 At eleven, I’m the youngest of eight boys lined up along one row of lockers in the otherwise empty men’s locker room at the swimming pool to which the day camp I am attending … Continue reading →

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 3

Posted on 8/26/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

If you haven’t already, I urge you to read Part 1 and Part 2. (If you haven’t read Part 2, or haven’t read it in a while, you might want to read it before reading Part 3, if only because the last paragraph … Continue reading →

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 2

Posted on 8/13/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

To read Part 1, go here. You have to wonder what kind of research he did and how he did it. Did he interview women? Create a list of all the possibilities he could imagine and ask them to check … Continue reading →

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My Daughter’s Vagina, Part 1

Posted on 8/8/2007 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

“My Daughter’s Vagina” is the title of an essay I wrote about five years ago that was published online here but that I have never really felt comfortable with as a finished piece. Not too long ago, I came up … Continue reading →

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