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We want our lives even-cut, …
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185220
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The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.
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1852115
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This weekend was supposed to be about intellect and soul-mating, but, like all others, it's turned into body and longing. You sit in my passenger seat and I let you smoke in my wee car with the windows rolled down. We've come from a wedding, a fairy ring, a…
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185233
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They said AK, AK, if you want to come here, if you want to come to Antioch, you have to bring your A+ game. If you want to run with the big boys. That’s what they said. So I brought my A+ game.
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1852139
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Like many little towns, ours has an archive. It is a catalog of everything that happens.
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18521310
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I bought some charlatan art / and hung it on the wall
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185188
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I can confirm nothing/
but impressions of the world//
that appear beyond my/
body’s reach.
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185143
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Born, he stood up. He wore nothing as often as possible
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185100
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The latest teen abuse of an ordinary household item? Late-night “lint roller” parties at which boys and girls engage in heavy “feel-up” sessions that can lead to unwanted pregnancies, white slavery and in extreme cases, marriage.
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18511510
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When we would leave her place I never had a firm idea where I was taking her except I knew - and she knew - that eventually we'd end up back at my place. We did this a lot when her husband, Mack, was out of town. Every couple of weeks his job took him to…
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185162
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"What is a vageena?" I wanted to know.
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185100
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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185197
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we wipe the blood of our progress
from our hands.
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185133
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How her camisole strap falls, her bare shoulder, her tattooed arm like an old, Coney Island mural. That dream she had: I bought her a fake, diamond necklace in Manhattan. She wanted to kiss me in the alley but was afraid of the rats
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185133
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Susan was twenty-four when it happened again, but she had neither the patience nor the attachment to see it through.
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18511310
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I see my siblings once a year when we all show up, as if required by law, to eat Thanksgiving dinner. It is apparent with every bite how much they hate each other.
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185101
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“Don’t you wish it always ended that way? The right people fall in love? Romance leads to marriage? God, that was a great movie.”
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1850109
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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185053
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“No names,” she said. “I am the mysterious woman, and you are the handsome stranger.”
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185011
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There was an ownership about the makeshift carnival. There was a therapy there.
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185000
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Tak Tuckerby was a racecar driver. He could drive a racecar fast and handle a racecar perfectly. Unfortunately, Tak could only drive in one direction.
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185054
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Their love was doomed at the onset, yet they engaged in it anyway, heedless of the numerous error messages and critical runtime failures. Abort, Retry, Fail? They selected Retry over and over.
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1850133
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As American as hotdogs and apple pie...
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1850157
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It is a sunny day in the autumn of the patriarch.
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185020
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You were at a saloon on Water Street. Witnesses say. You were taken out of the place and put on a sloop against your will. Witnesses don’t say.
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184931
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the future wrapped up in a dream
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184976
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That morning, four children appeared in front of the train, which was ready to depart
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184912
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It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t scary. It wasn’t great. And it never is with people.
Except..eventually..when you meet the right person..it is.
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