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The bus is late; the papers disappear.
The china breaks, and the suit does not fit.
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The squirrels love the sun
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Emma and I were in a shabby part of town with vacant lots and overgrown yards, and I wondered if something would happen as we loped beside Tom, who was slow-witted and 21. We were 13 . . .
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"Cooperation and sharing could eliminate poverty."
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But this ache wouldn't leave me.
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We go in gently at first, skimming over the first few swells and dropping speed, but then we pitch hard, tail over. The windshield holds. I think of Lily. I think of the baby. And I see my life.
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He was starting fresh, starting legal.
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If you find the place they forgot to bomb send me a hot pink postcard. The planet is only so big. We're already dipping our heels into the waters without wanting to become true believers, miserable followers. The bedtime stories will have to…
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She thought she would be happy nowA new beginningA new lifeit wasn't to behe tore up all her nicememories
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r luv iz gud enuf 4 a tat2
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The murder of two teens late one humid night on a tiny rural Virginia island brings a dark, malignant mystery edging into the village known as Leicester Court House.
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I read the ending to her and it was clear to her--clear as it could only be to a woman, to a woman you're in love with--that I had been describing her.
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"Every generation is a new generation, isn't it? What's so different about your generation?"
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I peed on Rick’s toothbrush. I nearly repented and cleansed it with hydrogen peroxide in the middle of the night. But I didn’t.
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I draw your location on my thighs. It takes up both legs; it’s far. I think about showing you but something comes up. The phone rings. I tell her I don’t want to donate to the PBA.
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Often, meeting attractive people we pay very little emotion toward them ... Why? It's because we have no common (often the economic in its sense) project of living to bring us together ... When such project exist ... Then, well ... we find people sexy
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In time, I will forgethow he said "smooshie" for "smoothie"and "eyebrowns" for "eyebrows,"how his upper lip dimpled when he laughedin that uproarious, wild toddler way.How he wheedled to be wrapped and rocked,after a bath, even at age five,his long calves uncovered by…
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I'm standing outside your window with our son's fingers in my fist.
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We can’t be sure. Perhaps it is/
some slight exaggeration of one/
or several elements that steals our breath.
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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
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I want youto remember me. This the placewhere I'll always be, if you're looking hard enough.This is the place I've letgo of all expectations, no regrets, and nomasks. This the place my heartbobbs about like a…
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We two have this entire lifetime left, so let's waste it . . . .
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What does God find abhorrent?
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fog settles over the mountain laying a ghostly blue shroud
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and watch the bird play and squirrel play/
and the twitching of cottontail noses
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pressing my hands into the voice in the bed,
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Particles flung by the sun
pierce us through, undetected
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