<![CDATA[Stories by Marcia Abboud on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@marciaabboud?source=rss-9fa321502db8------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*u8IuEvo8TK4MqALREgiiBg.jpeg Stories by Marcia Abboud on Medium https://medium.com/@marciaabboud?source=rss-9fa321502db8------2 Medium Fri, 13 Nov 2026 07:27:31 GMT <![CDATA[A Lot Can Happen in a Missing Hour]]>

I Couldn’t Remember the Hour. I Couldn’t Believe What I’d Done.

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How time seems both endless and fleeting

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My grandson’s heartbreak taught me something

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I still think of her years later and of what she tried to do for me

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How my bratty arrogance became hard-earned wisdom

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I wanted to run from that meeting straight into a psych ward

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Turned out to be the brother I never had

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On writer’s block, burnout, endings and other shitty things

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I’m at odds with how people do this.

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Where are all the sinkholes when you need them

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