1395 12 8
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My mother should have been a minister or a peace officer. Instead, she was a homemaker who ran the home like an agency. There were certain hard and fast rules.
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1192 12 13
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The child was delivered, set to breathing, and whisked away before Fae Anne could even catch a glimpse of her.
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1310 12 6
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Agamemnon and Menelaus were/
complete creeps. Achilles was//
a pompous piece of shit.
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2007 12 5
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Thistle and cracked corn were thrown to us each morning and the occasional live chicken...
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2222 12 5
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I wanted to watch, for as long as I could, until my innocence, like balloons, disappeared from view.
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2468 12 11
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fun fact: a doll's legs will twitch
while being scalped
but only for just a little bit
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2266 12 7
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Another thing about Dysthymia is how I get locked into a thought, a needle in a record of a song I can’t get out of my head, a song that drives me crazy until I hear it again, until I play it just the amount of times to where my brain is satisfied.
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145 12 10
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The magician was bereft. What's a magician without a hat?
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1324 12 12
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A thin line separated her lips, like something sketched with a pencil.
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1953 12 8
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"Everything except food and sex."
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1614 12 10
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2085 12 6
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The tadpoles flipped on the brown mud bottom. She dipped one out and held it near, seeing it in her belly, shaping arms and feet and a small, blond head. She set it back and stood, breasts out, arms up. The ducks in the weed, eyes hard like hungry boys, waited for bread.…
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2138 12 8
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Two-way conversation with God.
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118 12 6
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1954 12 11
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Everything would've been copasetic except about the time we got down there they put the turkey in the fryer..
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3492 12 10
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You wanted to be a writer. Now you’re a writer.
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1771 12 6
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The ghosts run before/
attacking horsemen. A heart/
is ruptured by a spear.
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1322 12 6
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it's all a bit like the quiet steam
drifting to nowhere off my microwaved
hot coffee in the sunflower mug
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2566 12 5
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“How much is stuff worth? Stuff man! Bling! Cargo! STUFF! What's it worth to you? It ain't worth a shit, man! Clean clothes! Comfortable shoes! A ride! Those things are important! But they’re only stuff.
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1867 12 10
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2217 12 9
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1.Oh yes, I'm just kicking around in the leftover moon dust you could say I'm certainly not waiting around for your satellite feed anymore certainly never ever hoping to see if your free falling hair strands still look…
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1771 12 11
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1435 12 10
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We are our own pathogens.
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1683 12 8
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Trigger warning: casualties of war.
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1293 12 9
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you shimmered me with attention
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1991 12 6
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100 12 5
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1714 12 11
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I'm in Joel's front yard when I dodge the third call from my divorce lawyer. I'm here for Joel; I can't seem to show up anywhere unless it's for someone else. We watch his son, Andy, push his bike up the hill. This is the…
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1705 12 12
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I picked out a book to read on the airplane. The title was The Function of the Orgasm by Wilhelm Reich.
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1569 12 9
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I was at the doctor's office, having my blood drawn. I was talking to the medical assistant. She was tying off my arm to tap my vein. She was almost 8 months pregnant with a girl, though her belly stuck out straight in front of her enough to be told she was having a boy.…
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