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Happy International Women's Day - 2 Weeks Ago Today, We Lost One of The Good Ones

Billie Proffitt

Mar 8, 2020
8 min

Happy International Women's Day - 2 Weeks Ago Today, We Lost One of The Good Ones

It is not “do as I say and not as I do” in our family - it is lead by example.

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Billie Proffitt

Dec 22, 2019
14 min

Just because it's Christmas -

Let me be very clear here too, that I do not desire to be writing this - not at all. I don’t want to be working on the project that I am...

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Billie Proffitt

Sep 9, 2019
7 min

Rex, King of Mardi Gras

I have been so scared to commit to ANYTHING, because I look down the barrel of all the bad things that could happen, and I completely lose..

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Billie Proffitt

Jun 26, 2019
2 min

“A Golden Cage Is Still Just A Cage.”

I don’t want to marry a man who loves me like you do, because you love me from afar, like I’m some pretty bird kept in a gilded cage...

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Billie Proffitt

May 7, 2019
8 min

What. A. Basic. Fuckwit.

And then that was it. A few days before he landed back in The States, I never heard from him again. Is he dead? Most likely not...

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Billie Proffitt

Mar 15, 2019
11 min

March 15, 2019

I have been looking forward to today for weeks now - years actually, if I put it all together… All the pain, the loss, the heartbreak, the..

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First Class to Freakin' February-Chilly Tennessee

Billie Proffitt

Feb 6, 2019
4 min

First Class to Freakin' February-Chilly Tennessee

One of the things I remember most vividly about my childhood on American Airlines was the blessing of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies...

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Billie Proffitt

Jan 26, 2019
7 min

How To End A Friendship.

The next day: January 21, 2012, Morning: Bestie & I sit crying on the living room floor with our feet hanging down the step to the patio...

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Billie Proffitt

Jan 24, 2019
7 min

RE: Conversion proceedings

"I'm willing to discuss anything and everything because I've had enough of this," he claimed...

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One Sweet Glimpse of Truth On The Witness Stand

Billie Proffitt

Aug 8, 2018
4 min

One Sweet Glimpse of Truth On The Witness Stand

I’ve been in various civil lawsuits against my estranged defacto spouse since early 2014 and we spent a number of days in trial over the...

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Billie Proffitt

Jun 30, 2018
5 min

A Saturday Morning Dream

Because it's not awkward to email your ex's father's childhood best friend somewhat out of the blue describing a Saturday morning dream...

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Billie Proffitt

May 8, 2018
2 min

Bob's Big Boy, Toluca Lake

I tried to go to Forest Lawn but it closed before we finished chatting at my Aunt’s kitchen table… For as long as I can remember I yearned..

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Billie Proffitt

May 2, 2018
3 min

The Many Inspirations of Nana

Obviously my tears are not about the pet friends in the videos.

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Billie Proffitt

Apr 25, 2018
3 min

Waiwera - Natural Artesian Water

It’s a funny thing, life is… all the arbitrary ways we feel so beautifully loved, & the bizarre ways with which we can...

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Oh! For the Love of Charlie... When Law Marries Art, For Better or For Worse

Billie Proffitt

Oct 11, 2017
8 min

Oh! For the Love of Charlie... When Law Marries Art, For Better or For Worse

...as I heel-toe stride across the top side of Sydney’s iconic Archibald Fountain, hoping I’m not too late.

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Billie Proffitt

Sep 27, 2017
6 min

"Are You the Other Woman?"

My phone started ringing. It was Jeremy’s photo and name, but when I answered, it was a woman. “Hi, this is Jeremy’s wife,” she said.

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Billie Proffitt

Sep 13, 2017
9 min

Well, Today Didn't Go As Planned

Like an endless stream of girl’s date nights, she spoiled me always, and most often in the chunks of contracts when she lived in LA...

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Billie Proffitt

Sep 6, 2017
3 min

The Feelings

Imagine what we could do if it wasn’t just a few girls we felt this amongst, but what if we opened up our circles to feel this with...

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Billie Proffitt

Aug 30, 2017
4 min

But Can Mike Judge Save Us?

Post-9/11 explains so many annoyances of my life – I mean it’s the most alluded to fear-mongering event in my generation...

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There Are Plenty of Coyotes In The Hills

Billie Proffitt

Aug 23, 2017
9 min

There Are Plenty of Coyotes In The Hills

"I was what you wanted you were what I needed And we could meet in between We were gonna be the greatest love story this town had ever seen"

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Billie Proffitt

Aug 16, 2017
4 min

The Proposal

...lights of Hennepin Bridge, and he balanced us right there in the middle of the Mississippi River, as he got up on on one knee.

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Billie Proffitt

Aug 9, 2017
3 min

Our Story for The Knot

The first time we were asked, “how long y’all been married?” was outside on Broadway about thirteen minutes after we exchanged first names..

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Billie Proffitt

Aug 2, 2017
3 min

One Year Later

With the drop of the bouquet I was, (dun-dun-dun)… In a relationship.

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Billie Proffitt

Aug 2, 2016
4 min

CALLING IN THE ONE

Dear Missed Connections – to the couple who kissed in the West Hollywood doorway at Norah tonight… Thank you.

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MY RED, RIGHT HAND - "TAKE A LITTLE WALK TO THE EDGE OF TOWN & GO ACROSS THE TRACKS..."

Billie Proffitt

Jul 26, 2016
7 min

MY RED, RIGHT HAND - "TAKE A LITTLE WALK TO THE EDGE OF TOWN & GO ACROSS THE TRACKS..."

...unanticipated pain – that of my skin splitting under the dismounting weight added to force + gravity. F = GMm over r2, right?

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Billie Proffitt

Jul 19, 2016
3 min

HOW ARE YOU?

Well, I am wearing the same clothes I have been for 2 days now when my luggage went to Texas without me, have about 14% of my voice left...

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Billie Proffitt

Jul 12, 2016
4 min

THE FOLLOW THROUGH OF LIZARD FACE

And there out of the darkness, one of them arrived. “Excuse me, Miss?” a perfect British accent, with a perfectly striking British man...

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Billie Proffitt

Jul 5, 2016
4 min

LIZARD FACE

...he was a professional forklift driver but was fired on the spot for deciding his new uniform was nothing more than his underwear & boots.

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