1799 12 4
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"Cooperation and sharing could eliminate poverty."
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1799 0 0
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It might not seem easy to breathe any love into a name like Father. It’s a stiff word—it’s not soft, like, say, Papa—but sometimes you have to breathe love into names you don’t choose.
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1799 10 5
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Freshly fucked,
Shirley exhaled enjoying the lingering sensations. She always felt lighter after a good orgasm, and this had been one for the record books.
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1799 10 8
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Nothing good comes from being lowered into a well to take a photograph, boy
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1799 2 1
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Oh no, here is that Whitman man
I’ve heard he is a bounder.
Don’t look his way or catch his eye-
Just get another round, dear.
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1799 26 13
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1799 0 0
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A few people bristled and looked at Jim, but since he was avoiding their gaze, they had no choice but to return their attention to their own table and pretend to pay attention to the conversation they previously had been pretending to pay attention to.
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1799 0 1
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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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1798 7 6
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He hasn't had a wedding ring in years. When George's knuckles began to swell — a little arthritis — his ring dug into his finger so bad his wife Loren took him to the ER and had it cut off. The ring, not the finger. He never knew there was a tool to cut rings,…
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1798 4 5
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But the world is smaller when I see it /
from the crook of your neck.
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1798 1 0
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"I always disliked such display of religious fervor. I dislike religious fervor. Period."
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1798 3 3
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I know I’m slipping
into my mother’s skin. I answer the phone
with her voice; her hands grind the coffee beans.
And who is this listening to NPR in the morning
while the fresh-faced girls in the neighborhood trudge toward school,,
peonies han
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1798 18 8
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She’s there, in a tin, loosely wound
beneath sepia tissue paper, a braid
to worry in your fingers.
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1798 10 7
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She can never say why, but guilt rides her bones
like the spirit. She rubs worry raw.
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1798 13 8
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When you bring information, it does not arrive.
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1798 3 3
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Some trick of the morning light makes the tattoo on her ankle look like the burn from a branding iron. She had watched her father as he slept last night. He was handsome and innocent, like a baby boy.
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1798 29 13
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Cinnamon and smoke
infuse the days that shorten,
chill, accelerate.
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1798 27 13
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It’s beautiful to look at and to hold/
though true musicians would be appalled/
by the black plastic
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1797 3 2
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The snake-like veins began to pulsate angrily, and viciously about his body. Quickly he rose up about the girl. His heart was now pounding rapidly against his chest. Outstretched, were his wings, the width of the balcony, white and decrepit and old, yet s
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1797 3 2
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So I’ll wait for her to clear all burden from her head and feel the ocean move us. Stand up, walk over to me and kiss me as we glided through open water.
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1797 12 11
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Cellulite is legal to have, either way.
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1797 0 0
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Such behavior will result in no disciplinary action only: 1) if all blinds are drawn; 2) all doors are locked; and 3) loud groaning is masked by appropriate use of the volume control on the classroom’s closed-circuit TV set.
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1797 7 5
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I am standing in the kitchen, kneading dough, because this is one way to say sorry. This is way to say, things will be different now, look.
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1797 7 4
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The officers carried him away in cuffs as he yelled "I NEED STATS! PLEASE! JUST GIVE ME THE STATS!"
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1797 10 3
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Melinda said forget the kegger last night, what we’re about to do will help you figure out whether you want to apply here.
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Joaquin Phoenix has inspired me to quit writing and purse my true lifelong passion.
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1797 7 4
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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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1797 5 3
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Our mothers died in childbirth. Taken in by the village, our new mothers taught us to wave at the river boats, to sell our trinkets to tourists. They offered us coins of a foreign currency and little pathetic smiles. By nightfall, our fingers bled. Then came…
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1796 2 0
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That put a real crimp in our already crimped sex life. Actually I didn’t mind as much as Allison minded. It made her real grumpy when she didn’t get laid. I could never understand how she could bear so much pain, because she was so small that it was l
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1796 3 3
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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.
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