1982 15 11
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There was nothing to do but dream ourselves forward. Nothing to do but not die.
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198262
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They stood at the intersection waiting for the light to change so they could cross the highway.
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19811715
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Before the days of “customer experience,” Eddie figured out whatever information he could about his clients. He asked them for business cards, recorded their phone numbers from the reservation book, snapped photos of them in his mind…
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1981104
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Again, that was not the man I once knew. If they were taking Las Vegas odds; I should be the one dealing with this first.
Why was it him and not me?
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198195
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Hair as black as a Raven’s wing. Dark eyes. You wore a black dress, too, my favorite color.
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198198
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The stand is designed to clasp two guitars, one on either side. She cradles an Ovation in her arms, a guitar variety our high school friends used to call a soup bowl. In the stand is an acoustic-electric hybrid that I toyed with for ten…
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198100
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I can barely feel the blade as it first goes in. I'm pleasantly surprised. But as she drags the knife across my skin the pain increases becoming more and more painful rising to a point of unbearable agony the further she cuts.
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198083
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love notes yellowed through the years
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19802117
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After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
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198076
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I'm a librarian. A reader. I identify as a four-eyed person. I've always worn glasses. I got my first pair in the second grade. It was a miracle! The blurry world I'd inhabited all my life suddenly came into focus. I could see the blackboard! I could read street signs! I…
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198056
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She told me one way to deal with it would be to put everything in a box and burn it.
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198011
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Graeme King was disturbed. He sat at his desk feeling his bloodshot eyes rolling backwards, impatient, leaden in their sockets. Could he believe what he had just seen? Surely not. Surely the late nights spent absorbing the relentless pulse of his computer screen…
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1979149
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When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
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1979118
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They are always there. Stoic and steady.
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1979208
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Phoebe-Lou Adams wrote this of them
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1979205
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He tells me that only a few things had happened in his life but some of them he had felt deeply.
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197942
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Great Uncle did stunts in silents and shot a man in a cowboy one-reeler, then vanished to the hills like Roy Earle in High Sierra.
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197850
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“No, dad, I've never seen urine colored pearls.”
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1978143
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You have a house (plural, as in Spain)
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197800
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197854
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Click-clack, click-clack. The cadence of the tracks below push George back and forth between what happened and what is to come.
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197852
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I think I’m the best Marilyn Monroe there ever was.
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1978105
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Truth came out of it, a little bug that hovered there...
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197841
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At that time I was meeting Jacob at 3:30 each afternoon in Joan of Arc Park so we could walk dogs together. This was our job.
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19781817
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The air is dry and smoky from a fire some miles away. The air is cool. A pair of vultures is soaring in a circle high above the rising land.
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197865
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There are glasses in the sinkfrom the water that I drink.And the books in my li-braryare not dumb and ordinary.There's a doggie at my door;did I go to the pet store?There's a puppy on my couch-ywho was happy, now she's grouchy.Was a writer, now an authoror an otter; no, an…
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19782212
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So, how did they meet? After years and years of starvation and gruesomeness and lack of human contact because there were no humans left, only walking corpses, a woman gently lifted the sixty-pound dead man's penis with a cool washrag and wiped him clean. The dead…
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197800
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...It's my advice that this Fourth of July the Office of Homeland Security post the following instructions on your web site www.Ready.gov — people should act like my dog Lucy and just stay inside under the bed and tremble...
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19781411
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1978136
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The three were up early to await the deer with rifles, ammunition, and coffee.
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