1829 11 9
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Neglected long enough, uncalled for/
by the shrinking language of the day,//
my words abandon me.
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182921
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‘Do I still ‘respect’ you? Ha! - there’s a sweet old-fashioned phrase! I don’t know, maybe not so much ...
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182910
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A powerful song is often a result of imaginative storytelling through a unique “voice” and pitch-perfect musicality.
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1829112
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Although radiation and chemo rendered him a wraith...
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182952
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I know what he meant.
I've been in the 3 A.M. cream cheese.
I've known the hole in the bagel.
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182954
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He reveled in the chase, giddy when just out of arm’s reach. When to catch him, that was the question.
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18291512
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You should have
marked that territory like a conquistador,
mounted him like an equestrian, left no
what-ifs in your wake.
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182920
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I paused in case she said more. Then, “He’s very faint but he wants to talk.”
She leaned forward, chin almost resting on the grey-haired woman in front of her. “Tell him to shout.”
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18281312
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screw everything, youth is plinko
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18282014
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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182800
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Dr. van Roos reminded the group that trauma is trauma...
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18281813
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One must be drenched in words.
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182830
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She burst
Into the glass shop
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182800
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And there sat one man. Searching for words and solace. The silence returned and the colors peeled off from the walls. Darkness returned with fledgling light. He threw back his head and filled the emptiness with his laugh. He laughed in mirth and in misery
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182850
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When I got word from Mary Jo, she warned me that Mitchell Parkman was out looking for me with a butcher knife. I knew immediately what I had to do. I packed up my things and sold the Pepsi van and moved up to a room on Regent Street in Berkeley, all the w
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182874
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...something in her raw vulnerability and daring beauty drove these men wild...
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1828188
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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.
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182831
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Why won’t my parakeet eat my diarrhea?
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18281212
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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182810
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I’ve done my part of the job in conservative clothing. Lonnie’s done her part looking like Dolly Parton.
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182897
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The day you came to the wedding the sky was so, so brightly July./ I saw my face where I left it the last time . . . .
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182832
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We fold it end over end, meeting in the middle where she takes it, and I let go...
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182842
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So begins your new career in the car service business. In some ways you enjoy it, too. Sitting alone in the cab each day, totally your own boss; you get a surge of excitement inside thinking about the money you'll make in a way that requires so little work. Clearing two…
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1828116
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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182721
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But Von Rotten was up in Penny’s room right this minute, either banging her or haranguing her, or worse, both. I envisioned him with her, and my guts began twisting and turning, and my insides fell into my shoes. What had I done? She was being held capt
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182700
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The moon is now at the corner on pace for the horizon. On top of a tall business building in Downtown Newark stop a woman in a hood cloak.
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182721
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Sarge had done this before. Not with this many rookies and not on a one-way trip. This was a suicide mission. The boys didn't know it, but he did. They weren't coming back. Hell, they couldn't come back
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18272011
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The stunned son knelt to understand then fell, his heart shredded by the hollow point.
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18272013
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182732
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Jesus was a cancer survivor and possibly a super nova.He ran with the Wolves of night time, with the women of the paleolithic era and hunted for meat when the blood didn't drip to their feet and create veritable red shoes like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.I am no longer in…
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