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Doug DuBrul

DuBrul wrote stories for the Reader from 2000 to 2005. According to an obituary published in Union-Tribune, Doug DuBrul, Jr., born July 23, 1956, passed away Oct. 6, 2012. There is a YouTube video taken by his sister of flower arranging for his celebration, Oct. 21, 2012.

Articles by Doug DuBrul

San Diego men look at selves in swimsuits

Men's Summer Swimsuit Issue Nowadays, whenever I occasion to strip down to my swimwear, my own interior monologue pesters me, "Are you standing up straight? Is your stomach tucked in? Are there zits on your …

March 27, 2022
Judith Moore feels her daughters' pain, Reader writer marries Cynthis Heimel

Lines of Love, Lines of Pain We lived by the hospital. I heard sirens every day. When both girls were with me in the house, I felt a smug assurance when I heard the sirens …

January 30, 2022
Reader writers get up very close to San Diego's homeless

Blood Brothers It wasn’t long before the owner of the radiator shop discovered that Rat had been sleeping in the van. But when the man saw Rat’s beat-up face and how sick he was, he …

June 27, 2021
Your mom has cancer, your love is in prison, the difficulty of twins

Mom's Cancer A comic exorcises Bryan Fies’s demons. If your mom were diagnosed with cancer, how would you deal with it? Comic creator Brian Fies decided to use sequential art to help cope and deal …

November 1, 2020
Internet love, the Mitchells' 30-year marriage, mom to an unusual child

How Bob and Amy and Chris and Samantha and Ted and Roy and Kurt and Becky Found Love on the World Wide Web Passion by the gigabyte. BOB | Age: 35 Q How did you …

October 26, 2020
San Diego lovers and families

When Your Love is Locked Up During the two days that the jury deliberated, the rest of the world seemed on freeze-frame, and I spoke with no one besides Dee's mom. We spent the time …

July 25, 2020
San Diegans on love, marriage, and everything in between

How Bob and Amy and Chris and Samantha and Ted and Roy and Kurt and Becky Found Love on the World Wide Web BOB | Age: 35 Q Did she send you a photograph? A. …

July 18, 2020
San Diego couples give robbing the cradle respectability

WHILE THE DEBATE OVER GAY MARRIAGE ROILS THE COUNTRY AND INTERRACIAL COUPLES continue to be stigmatized in many communities, the true frontier of romantic transgression can be found in relationships between people of vastly different …

How Bob and Amy and Chris and Samantha and Ted and Roy and Kurt and Becky Found Love on the World Wide Web

BOB | Age: 35 Q How did you meet your Internet date? A I met her when she responded to the ad that I placed on Love@aol. She’s the only girl who responded to me. …

November 1, 2001
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