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		<title>LONG DIVISION &#8212; a young adult novel (sneak preview)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“…” Special. I didn’t have a girlfriend halfway through 9th grade and it wasn’t because I had wider hips than Lisa Louis or because I hated the smell of deodorant or because I treated my blue sweat rag like that white boy, Linus, treated his blanket. It wasn’t even because Principal Jankins was heard over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Your Wedding Day &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Nichole The week you were born, I hid behind a Raggedy Ann and Andy toy box and waited for your Mama to bring you home. I didn’t hide simply because I was sad that you were taking my place as the baby of the family; nor did I hide because I, as a 7 year old child, had never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieselaymon.com/?p=1539</link>
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		<title>Aren&#8217;t we all young adults at heart?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;LONG DIVISION&#8221; Would you change the future of Mississippi even if it meant never falling in love with girl you were destined to marry? 14 year-old City Coldson will do anything to make Shalaya Crump love him &#8230; including traveling 26 years into the future, stealing a lap top and jetting 21 years into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieselaymon.com/?p=1534</link>
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		<title>Sometimes you&#8217;ve gotta go back, way back further than you thought possible, to find the will and creativity to say yes to life &#8230; Yes.</title>
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		<link>http://kieselaymon.com/?p=1512</link>
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		<title>Black Men Abuse Blue Tooth, White Folks Jog and &#8220;&#8230;&#8221; with PhD&#8217;s Get Arrested</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Our Grandmas used to beat us to remind us that there was a massive price to pay for being black, free and imperfect. Years later, we&#8217;re still paying that price and we have yet to accept the probability that, all things considered, not one black man in this country really deserves the positive or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieselaymon.com/?p=1319</link>
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		<title>The Air Down There: A Letter to Steve &#8220;Air&#8221; McNair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Air, The air down here feels even hotter with you gone.  In the Spring of 95, after I was suspended from Millsaps College, I went to Jackson State University. You destroyed us that year, 52-34 while completing a freakish 29 of 34 passes for 533 yards and 5 touchdowns &#8230; but don&#8217;t front! You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieselaymon.com/?p=1248</link>
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		<title>Lust, Guilt and The Wrath of High-Waisted Hideki</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ether. When I was a sophomore at Millsaps College, I agreed to tutor a Japanese exchange student named Hideki for extra credit. I can&#8217;t remember Hideki&#8217;s last name to save my life, but I do remember that he drove a maroon Dodge mini-van, rocked a backwards Waffle House hat and wore these extremely high-waisted Japanese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieselaymon.com/?p=1162</link>
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		<title>The Greatest American Worker of My Time was a Black Boy from Gary who Performed in White Face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Mama wanted me to love Michael Jackson as she did, but I couldn’t because all I could see was his work. My Mama, a 53 year-old woman from Forest Mississippi felt like she grew up looking horizontally at Michael and his brothers. Mama heard not only the Jackson 5’s work, but also their asphalted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieselaymon.com/?p=1175</link>
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		<title>Backwater Blues: A Nitwit&#8217;s Notes of Safety, Destruction and Charity &#8212; part 2 of 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a letter sent to two senior members of the faculty a few months ago. It&#8217;s a response to some things said out loud in a faculty meeting about growth, cuts, excellence and diversity. I&#8217;m sure comments like the ones made in our faculty meeting and letters like this one are being written [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieselaymon.com/?p=1166</link>
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		<title>Backwater Blues 2009: A Nitwit&#8217;s Notes on Safety, Destruction and Charity &#8212; part 1 of 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ether. I never expected to keep my job as a professor at Vassar, not even waaaaaay back in the day when money folded both ways and people still bought new cars. So of course, I don’t expect to keep my job in this recession. But what fool does? I’ve been on the tenure track at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieselaymon.com/?p=1107</link>
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