1858 13 4
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His hands go up and down on me. You love me don't you he says. I don't know I say.
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1858 3 3
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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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The moonlight news is brutal
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1858 10 1
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I told you that I have homicidal urges that alternate with ones of the suicidal kind. You flicked an imaginary speck of dust from your fat, fleshy forefinger with your ultra-flexible, wimpy thumb.
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1858 9 7
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I’ve been such a fool, so reckless and untrue.
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1858 6 3
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Marlene smiles at me with her lips pressed together. The young girl standing with her can't be more than fourteen or fifteen although she is tall for her age. She too smiles. She has an intricate set of braces on her teeth. I can't tell if Marlene has teeth
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1858 21 12
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It is a well-known fact that my wife sleeps around. There. I said it and now everyone knows that I too know about my wife. Let me just tell you this one thing; she has her reasons. You ask me how I know that she has her reasons, but who would know better than…
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1857 13 7
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Here’s how you do it. First you get a ladder, a long one.
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1857 10 5
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It’s a song you knew once, begin to remember now: You’ve had this dream before.
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1857 6 6
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But the best thing about Rebekah
was the way she floated always
beneath the scent of woodburn
and dusty Middle America,
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1857 4 3
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The mouth on my breasts is hungry, searching, needing...
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1857 8 7
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It went like this: We were at the river. It had been a long day. The sun set over the hill tops, now. Me and Danny sat by the edge with buckets of water full of small fish and some dead crab that we'd got from the market, earlier and looked out over the small waves the…
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1857 6 3
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When the world is quiet, all your thoughts demand attention.
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1857 4 4
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She has a mercenary way of doing business and she's pretty shrewd. I make her stand outside to smoke her cigarette. I stay inside watching her stance as she violently tugs at the barrel, tearing every ounce of smoke out of it, then stamping it out as I wo
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1857 13 12
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1857 1 0
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After nine months, I was granted early parole...
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1857 6 4
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Some people might find it strange and a bit obsessive to mow their lawn every day, but to Shiram it was an irreplaceable part of his daily existence.
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1857 19 15
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1857 14 8
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You always complained that Christmas/
ruined your birthday/
sister.
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1856 9 6
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The thunder rolled like an old Bob Dylan tour...
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1856 9 9
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“Have you ever thought what stars are made of?”
“No,” he said.
The man nodded seriously. “I hadn’t either. Not until I met the Star Catcher. He told me all the stars in the universe are actually coins. Coins! Big coins. Small coins. Different colors
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1856 4 0
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And without further ado, The Author.
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1856 15 9
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Love free of independence is a savage, hungry beast
Phantoms grasping, sweating, gasping 'till her mind could not be freed
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1856 22 12
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I liked the taste in my mouth, mint and cigarettes and fresh and filthy.
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1856 8 1
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In between ketchup-covered fries, a Quarter Pounder, and a vanilla shake, catty comments, and lots of laughs, Marylou slipped in her announcement, a grenade in a rose garden. “I'm pregnant,” she said.
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1856 0 0
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The Sentinels all played for a while. They helped Reya swim in the deeper side of the pool. They even had a diving competition to see who could make a bigger splash.
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1856 4 0
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I hadn't yet assembled enough pieces of Italian to explain any of this, but it was hardly necessary. The fact that I was a scrittore in a language foreign to her seemed to make me especially fascinating...
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1856 21 14
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1856 4 2
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He picked up a pack of cigarettes and shook it. He flipped the lid to confirm there were none left.
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1855 12 7
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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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