1786 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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1786 1 2
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It distresses me that you will never lust after me /
the way you did for that girl /
who had her hands around your belt
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1786 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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1786 1 1
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The closed door swallowed up both voices, and all I could make out afterward were muffled pleas and angry answers that died completely.
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1786 18 12
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“ I told you what she said, that she liked me better when I was drinking. Well, that's the way I feel, too. I liked her better when I was drinking.”
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1786 6 4
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A junkyard Bison seems an odd choice over the usual dog, but it did the job--trampling trespassers, vagrants and unautorized salvagers with a violent and admirable efficiency
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1786 2 0
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My apologies also for those crowded roads you and your families have to drive on. My generation would have built more public transportation but, in all honesty, we just didn't give a damn.
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1786 11 10
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Someone will labor to keep it alive/
although the body will want but/
to return to random particles
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1786 3 4
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Sunday, Nolan and I drop by the ice rink on 10th and Alma to watch the amateur hockey leagues battle it out in an unspoken yet assumed class war: the buff, unemployed rink bums who can grind ice, cross-check, and stick handle like the pros, versus the dou
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1785 3 3
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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.
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1785 0 0
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Beautiful,
a country left abandoned by the parade path.
The soldiers that typically occupy this place,
temporarily removed to neighboring lands;
congregating together,
backs to the native.
I benefit from the accidental diversion.
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1785 3 1
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Your place is extra.
No it isn't.
It is, baby.
The man was as aroused by her discomfort as he had been annoyed by her laugh. She wasn't laughing now.
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1785 8 8
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Sometimes you've just got to dance to Be heard. You have got to sing out loud To be understood. Other times No matter what you splash 'n' paint on 'em The beauty goes on shamelessly Not arousing any type of newfound Curiosity. We're…
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1785 10 8
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Nothing good comes from being lowered into a well to take a photograph, boy
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1785 9 3
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I had dreams of being permeated with the heat of Caramelized sisters. A declawed cat kept creeping along my apartment walls.
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1785 7 4
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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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1784 7 3
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Susie watched the record, her mouth agape just slightly, the spinning vinyl unveiling the powerful sound of a voice she'd wanted to hear her whole life.
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1784 7 4
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You can use your shoelaces or an Ace bandage. Loop a belt around your neck and toss the loose end over a shower curtain or closet pole. Pull. Try to lift yourself off the ground.
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1784 12 9
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We've talked often about that night, where six hours of our life disappeared, about our shared experience, and the big question of why.
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1784 2 0
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I saw it all, in a flash. Holy shit! I thought. This is good. I have to sit down and begin writing. This is serious. Dead serious!
I would rather be doing this than eating, or fucking, or anything. It was exhilarating. If I could only keep this up, who
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1784 4 0
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Except, something about Margaret was a little off. She would stop typing suddenly and look up at the plant, studying it, almost as if daring it to cross her. Then, she would go back to her computer and start pounding away again.
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1784 16 7
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Under nervously flickering fluorescent lights / your name will grow / fed by the tongues of Those Who Never Leave
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1784 8 4
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He had become an accessory to a murder.
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1784 0 0
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Redundancy was critical for survival, the builders said, so they designed Us with three cores of memory, each segment fully capable of independent operation.
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1784 1 1
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He introduced himself as Jimmy Stamps and shook my hand with the confidence of a man who is Microsoft Windows certified. Reeking of vodka and Swisher Sweets he proceeded to expatiate on the virtues of X
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1783 6 5
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He was a beautiful older man, late sixties, who reminded me of a movie star with a thick mane of silver hair parted neatly from left to right and eyes the color of that stretch of Pacific Ocean between San Pedro and Catalina Island, the calming blue of a carefree weekend…
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1783 12 11
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1783 2 2
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in cinematic snippets, ten-second scenes of twelve Sons …
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1783 10 1
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Loving you, I always knew, was a job I’d only get via a dead woman’s shoes. There you were, the recipient of pot roasts, fresh bread, at a loss amongst neighbourhood widows and divorcees. A tide of them rolled over you in calico blouses, cut off jeans
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1783 5 3
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Wafting wisps of fondness twinkling
in time with fairy lights pointing out lawns in cities
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