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In the beginning I wrote my diary on the backs of paper place mats. My friend and
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I were hitchhiking at the time. I was mailing regular letters and posteards to my
friends back home, but because I had no fixed address, no one could answer them
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And so I began writing to myself. Those first several years are hard to reread, not
Seven is trulya wonderful age. For two days. That's the length of time my friend
because they're boring-a diary is fully licensed to be boring- but because the writne
is so horribly *affected.
Pam and her son, Tyler, who is in the second grade, normally visit. He's at the stage
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where whatever I do, he wants to do. This includes wearing button-down shirts; singing
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the same song until everyone begs you to stop; and carrying a small reporter's notebook.
I gave him one the last time he came to the house and, imitating me, he stuck it in his
pocket alongside a pen. That afternoon my friend drove us to a nearby town. There was
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an issue of the local paper in the backseat of the car, and reading it on our way there, I
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came upon a headline that read, "Dangerous Olives Could Be on Sale."
โHmm, I said, and I copied it into my littlenotebook.
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Tyler did the same but with less *conviction. "Why are we doing this again?"
โIt's for your diary," I explained. โYou write things down during the day, then
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tomorrow morning you expand on them."
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โBut why?" he asked. โWhat's the point?"
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That's a question I've asked myself every day since September 5, 1977. I hadn't
known on September 4 that the following afternoon I would start keeping a diary, or
that it would consume me for the next thirty-five years and counting. It wasn't
something Td been putting off, but once I began, I knew that I had to keep doing it. I
knew as wel that what I was writing was not a journal but an old-fashioned, secret
diary. Often the terms are used in almost the same way, though I've never understood
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why. Both have the word "day" at their root, but a journal, in my opinion, is a
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*repository of ideas - your brain on the page. A diary, by contrast, is your heart. As
for โjournaling," a verb that appeared at around the same time as โscrapbooking," that
just means you're strange and have way to0 much time on your hands.
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A few things have changed since that first entry in 1977, but I've never hesitated in
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my "devotion, skipping, on average, maybe one or two days a year. It's not that I think
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my life is important. Perhaps it just feeds into my compulsive nature, the need to do the
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exact same thing at the exact same time every morning. Some diary sessions are longer
than others, but the length has more to do with my mood than with what's going on.
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"Journal" and "diary," both come from the same word originally, but the former is a
warehouse of ideas or(
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2 your heart
3 your letters
4 your terms
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Ouestion:Why has the author written in his diary almost every day since 1977?
Answer
He has never hesitated to keep a diary because he might feel uneasy if he
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ๅฎนใใพใจใใใใฎใงใใใ็ฉบๆ(โ . ) ~ ( โ ) ใซๅ
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thinks a child of age seven will ( โ )anything adults do. When the
uthor did something, his friend's son, Tyler, would do the same thing. However, Tyler
had a(ใฎ) about why the author kept a diary. The author has been keeping his
Taiary for a long time. The contents of the first several years, however, are too
affected for him to ( @ ) again.
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