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This is the first time in over 6 years that Om is single. Why? "We need to talk..." At 13 he was shipped from Saudi Arabia to a military academy in Illinois.
The rest of the students looked like the cast of gossip girl. He did not fit in, but he met a girl! She liked Om, and Om liked her back! At the end of senior year she started at Purdue, he went to Drexel. Long distance didn’t work. He texted her. “We need to talk” but she ended it with Om! Later Instagram announced she had a new boyfriend. Om threw himself into distractions, including a new girlfriend. Then COVID hit Ohm hard. This time Om received a text ‘we need to talk’ and she told him ‘we are done’ Om did not deal well with it. Om tried skydiving. When he got back he started dating a girl - is the one? Then she texted...

Ex-Files, First Person Arts StorySlam
@UndergroundArts, February 14, 2023

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"They met at Whole Foods... it was organic. Over the salad bar Chris picked up something he probably should have left behind the sneeze guard......Chris caught eyes with a smoke show, they flirt. Resolving to talk to her more, he drives away. Then comes to his senses and meets her outside. They exchange numbers and they are off to the races! And it was divine.
Chris gradually uncovered ‘the trifecta of insecurity’ Red flag the first: She asked for his phone code, weeks into the relationship. Red flag the second: She wanted Chris to reach back into his dating past and let them know - he was taken! Red flag the third: Back at the While Foods, Chris bumps into a pregnant ex-from a while ago. His girlfriends response: classic! Why did you go back in? The moral… always keep driving.
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"“was Michael trying to Tonya Harding me?” is never a good question to ask about a boyfriend, Lindzay confronted the truth at a coffee shop...Lindzay met Michael in a night club. They talked, well shouted in each others ears. He asked if she wanted to make out. Lindzay did not. Michael was persistent, they got together. She went away for a weekend and he welcomed her back to town before she told him she was back. Red flag number 1. The went to Moshulu, a fancy restaurant on a ship, Michael knew Lindzay would offer to pay half, even though he knew Lindzay was saving for a study abroad trip. They watched ‘I Tonya’. It spoke to Lindzay “was Michael trying to Tonya Harding me?”. Lindzay tried to break up, twice. The second time, at the Starbucks on Walnut and 24th she told him “I’m flawed, take me or leave me”.

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Dave's Japanese girlfriend (at least then) knew a 9 foot tall box truck would not fit under a 7 foot tall bridge, he tried though....

Dave moved To Philadelphia on Labor Day of 1992. His girlfriend from Japan was with him, her brother was flying into JFK. They were late meeting him. Dave had the bright idea of dropping her at Newark airport. So she could get the express and meet her brother - no problem. Driving into Newark, the 9 foot high truck went part of the way under a 7 foot high underpass. Dave waited for a new truck from the rental company. The insurance covered the truck damage, but the relationship did not survive the Newark Airport underpass.


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A stranger bought them breakfast they were such a cute couple. There was a reason they broke up. and a better reason they stayed friends....

Bollywood movies never prepared Art for real life. Her best friend was a theater friend, a vision walking tall with her crowd of fairy friends. One valentines day they all went out. That’s where Art met Beau, they talked about philosophy, crime, and punishment. They went to a club, it was an amazing night, afterwards they drank milkshakes at a drive-in Michigan. It was quiet at 3:30am. Before they knew it it was time for breakfast. Another couple paid for their breakfast because they thought they were so cute. Beau broke up with Art and she was devastated. Art saw him at parties, with girls then with guys. Then Beau transitioned.... Not something you often see in movies. But this story DOES have a fairytale ending.


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On a bench, 200 feet in the air Tess had her first kiss with a fellow camp counselor, the breakup was not quite so picturesque....

In short order they moved into his cabin, they fell in love. Then they broke up. Tess moved to a cabin 200 feet away. She decided she had been a good girlfriend and resolved to be mature. Later, 50 new staff arrived, including Simone, who caught her first ex’s eye. Simone and her ex-boyfriend had a fling. Tired of being a bystander in her ex-boyfriends love life she talked to the new fling. She explained how it would be better for the camp if they broke up. The new girl was nothing but kind. Infuriatingly. Repeatedly. It did not end well...

Tess was voted the audience favorite, and the StorySlam winner by our judges!

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Do what you love and the money will follow? It doesn’t. Marjorie can think of three people who get to do what they love. Marjorie just wants something she doesn’t hate. She got a job at a financial services place. Her boss spoke entirely in sports metaphors. But she wanted to fit in. After being there a month her boss said he needed to have a word with her. It turned out to be about her clothes. Her boss told her to wear less colorful clothing. Marjorie was offended. But she went to the professional training her boss told her to. Where she told not to use big hand gestures. That was against her nature. Later the company “restructured” and fired all the black people. Her boss told her he didn’t see color. Marjorie went to HR a week later and was let go.

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Om was born in Indra and moved to Saudi Arabia when he was in 3rd grade. He would pick fights and get in trouble every day. In 8th grade his parents sent him to a military school in Chicago. Coming from one of the hottest places in the world he was not prepared for the biting cold of Chicago. He had to take a thirty hour flight and it was not a fun trip. He was looking forward to how great America was going to be from the TV shows. He was not ready for all the corn fields. To try and make friends he signed up to okay a football game. Turns out it was the wrong kind of football. He lied and said he knew how to play American football. When he scored a touchdown, he ran to the wrong end.

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Michel woke up in a hospital room last year. He couldn’t remember anything. He had been in a car accident, had hit a tree going 70 miles per hour, and broken a lot of his bones and gone into a coma. He was in PT and couldn’t walk. He had to move in with his mom. His soon to be ex wife, who cheated on him, was also a nurse in that hospital. She broke up with him via text the day he tried walking again for the first time. He was in a lot of physical pain and a lot of psychological anguish. He learned that he had to change his expectations in life.

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