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A Clean Mess

"Always Be My Baby" - Mariah Carey Here I go again with my brilliant idea thinking that cleaning would be a way of cleansing away the past. After two loads of laundry, a ton of paperwork, and a blast from my college days, the last half of a decade came spilling out all over my carpet floor and I just couldn't stop it. I sat there in a circle of tears trying to turn the damn shredder on to get rid of it all; to say goodbye dammit, but low and behold it's still busted. I was hoping that it'd miraculously work again if I gave it a rest, but it just spat at me with no such luck as if to say, "Clean up your own mess." So I had no choice, but to sort through it all. All the knick-knacks, photos, dedications, trinkets, old concert tickets, movie tickets, sigh...old everything. I flipped through my planners of 2006, '07, '08, and '09 with little reminders, post-its and special dates of what the year held for me and mine. Come to think of it, I didn...