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That Dagwood is not a real person but a story told in dots. That Blondie is a male fantasy and will one day find her Nora Helmer.
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The bird sat there some time. Several minutes. My wife and I grabbed out i-Pads and took pictures.
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233 10 4
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Dreams / of being a millionaire are replaced by dreams / of being a billionaire
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She first asked him to marry her when she was five, when 'marry me' meant 'I like you more than anybody else' and she loved everybody around her who was nice to her. And he was so very nice to her. …
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I bit her ear and /
it was burnt toast
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1021 10 9
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My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.
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Hurried, hassling suit in front of me is being awful to the barista. So she refuses to serve him, turning away.
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1132 10 8
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After his chemotherapy failed, he went water skiing.
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1230 10 5
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Over our short, yet enduring relationship, I found that he was desperately trying to reconcile his ambitions with his situation. I left and he continued to be unhappy, trying to "fix" what he now realized had been broken all along. In the end, a span of a
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1003 10 9
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Your tunamelt cadence / Sank me to ocean floors
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612 10 9
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I caught sight of him standing near the nails.
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1455 10 6
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I'm rushing from the office, wanting to catch the 6.05, skittering down grey, commuter-laden streets, and I turn into the plaza and see the stupid fucking dancing couple. They are usually only there Fridays and weekends, catching the tourists on their way into Covent…
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"She has a lot of time to think these days. What else is a woman to do with the rest of her life?"
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1781 10 7
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Now, these explosions announced, political bribes and propaganda weren't going to be enough to push things through. There would need to be survival from blunt force trauma and fear tactics, a relentless forward march
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901 10 5
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I am studying the way/
dust bunnies emerge, grow/
and apparently reproduce.
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596 10 2
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For every person who dies alone that way, another twenty try.
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1132 10 3
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We are what we are, and that is zombies.
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1079 10 2
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1810 10 6
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A new constellation in the sweet hereafter.
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1046 10 7
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Once you descend, the third rail/
hums its invitation
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Bottom's up, mon cherie. On land, I'll grab mine with two hands. But in water, boy, I'm weightless and turning, a regular fish -- afloat, flopping, deboned.
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941 10 6
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“still watersrun deep” is not my portionborn to make waves Formed from the ocean
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944 10 9
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After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…
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681 10 5
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[T]he Thwaites Glacier . . . still exists as of August 2021, though probably with at least five hundred and twenty fewer gigatons of ice mass than in August 2011.
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910 10 8
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1063 10 7
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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