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To touch our skin was filthy,
to spread our legs a mortal sin. You closed
the keyholes to keep us apart, so we used them
to keep you out and keep our secrets to ourselves.
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Gateway Loves are lethal. They do not discriminate between bot or flesh, primary or clone.
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...I grew up in a provincial town which at the time had no bookstore and no library — no library even at school...
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She didn’t say yes, but she didn’t say no. She didn’t say anything. So I helped her to the car and we didn’t talk along the way.
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Retired cantor Janice Woltag Cohen just turned 50. We Boomers all know what that means. It's Colonoscopy Time!Colonoscopy! That fabulous 50th birthday present you give to yourself. Yes, it's yucky. But it's absolutely necessary. (It could save your life.)As kids…
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We used to smile when we saw the other smile.
We used to laugh just at the sound of our laughter.
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137700
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Jack thinks I should carry a loaded gun in my purse.
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1377105
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Half way through our cigarettes she told me her name was Charlotte.
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137688
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and I can't help it if it is. I know it won't stay that way for long, but for now that's all I've got to work with, shining in my window, made of all eight fingers and a couple of thumbs. But the latest pushy words still want to give…
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I am running for only one thing now. For Katy.
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“Too dumb to live,” my wife said when cretins on a motorbike blasted around us nearly taking a side mirror with them.
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Eventually, all the windows on the street went dark, each small house cloaking its occupants in a world unto itself, soundproofed and emotionally remote.
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[WE'LL LET *YOU* BE THE JUDGE!]
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when the surface of a photograph gets like this that it has gone blind
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'Do you feel that, my little one?' Stillness. Calm. I felt the baby move her tiny little feet and smiled.
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Ai did not know what to do, nor say. She did not want Manami to suffer anymore than she already has.
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137653
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Excessively. And this worried her, of course.
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Now, the Midwest was ashes. The oceans were covered with hydroponics plant growth.
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137610
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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Funny, you can drink wine and eat stale crackers, but you cannot suck a simple lollipop? Where does it say that in the bible? Nowhere, that’s where.
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After each piece cancelled the other
the generals folded up their checkerboards,
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137542
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My ghost has already been places I'll never see.
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Scientists have determined that a tiny freshwater organism known as the "bdelloid rotifer" gave up sex 40 million years ago. And you thought the spark had gone out of your marriage.
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i killed a poetic boy yesterday. the old ladies in theshadows swore at him when he was walking home proud ashell with a new pocketknife. they told him we dienext week so laugh like you got limes for balls. hecalled them drippy old vultures in his native tongue.they didn't…
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There was something in the pressure and the urgency that made her smile, and then laugh. It was like carrying heavy furniture while someone made a joke--the effectiveness of the joke seemed directly proportional to the weight of the furniture. What was it
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With the morning comes the repetition...
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“Turn the fucking thing off!” I yelled above the noise. “It’s fucking New Year’s morning!”
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