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Gary Shteyngart's avatar

god bless you, sir

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Matt Shaw's avatar

Drink counter: 14 and 16 are basically the same number--and it stays that way until the mid-20's, right?

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Steven Sidman's avatar

What’s with the body parts? Is this an organ recital? Given the particular body part, does this make you a shvantz melamed, as you teach us? Except that can also mean dim, and you are anything but dim.

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Timber Fox's avatar

That's a sandwich I will try. I wear a Schwartz's tee-shirt often, to remember eating those magnificent sandwiches in the park and watching LARPers beat each other with foam-padded wooden swords.

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David Breger's avatar

Boychik, if you can make a nice living with shlong talk, you go right ahead and talk about your hoodless penis and if you want to get a nice job so you don't have to make with the dirty talk, you know I'll still love you. Whatever you like.

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SCthesecond's avatar

Just read your penis piece. I hope you’re feeling better now. How agonizing! I have chronic pain from an injury a decade ago, pain every day, so I understand how it affects the psyche.

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Caroline Smrstik's avatar

I’m crying.

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Gary Shteyngart's avatar

so Plateau

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Gary Shteyngart's avatar

well played!

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Gary Shteyngart's avatar

lol

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glauber's avatar

Wow! Penis play!

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Francois Guillot's avatar

Hello Mr. Shteyngart, thank you for your New Yorker article, which I read with great interest. I am a fellow victim of male genital mutilation, although mine was "self inflicted": a vasectomy, 14 years ago, has left me with chronic pain, and your ordeal resonates with me, as I have experienced and felt many of the same things that you describe so eloquently and with such wonderful humor in your piece. I would like to ask you more about the amitriptyline cream that you were prescribed, and I was wondering if could please get in touch with me (I have left you a direct message). Thank you very much. I hope that you feel better now and that your pain has subsided completely.

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