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Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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I've heard of sucessful marriages where there's very little sex.
My heart aches for that kind of love.
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Dr. van Roos reminded the group that trauma is trauma...
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One must be drenched in words.
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Your faded presence in sepia dream returns, firelight whispers and vanilla scented ash. We were a beautiful knot: sinew and hemp, burlap and magnolia petal, concrete and vapor. Gray kisses hovered overhead, misty…
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She burst
Into the glass shop
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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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With the morning comes the repetition...
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now the days are empty
and time has lost its head
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They'd taken so much: ivory, rubber, copper, gold. Wealth for the grabbing. No remorse.
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It was just lying there by the side of the road next to a mailbox, pockets turned out, weeds kinda rolled flat around it. I counted three nickels, a dime, and a cigar butt too. I could sure use the change for gum, but I didn't want to get near it. It looked dead,…
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But the boy next door is worse than a dweeb; he's a prima donna and a bully and a little shit to boot. The divorce will only make him more.
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and i'm almost out of cigarettes,
and fireworks and sorority girls
scream
from down the street.
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Walking to Colorado? He doesn't have that kind of time.
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Suds, like gossamer bandages at her wrists, concealed the turbulence below but could not relieve it.
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IT's like, 15 words. Do you really need a snippet?
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War came home tonight. We weep and hug, while he stares over our shoulders, like the statue we'll make of him. We pour a drink for his shaky hands, wheel him past his friends the dead, and lie to each other about other, far off places as if we knew.
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Every time Hector left his home he wondered if it was for the last time. It was Monday at 2:45, so he was standing in the bedroom near the tall mirror, staring into his dark eyes. In the past, she would lovingly help him dress with her tiny, perfect fingers. She…
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John was sitting at his computer one night after work, when he read an article linked to him by a friend.
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Although still uncertain of whether she was a she fish or a he fish (she definitely hated being an it fish), the fish liked what she saw of Nags Head. Finally, a world that gave her a choice. And felt no need to verify whether she was a real she fish, or just a he fish…
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"Honey," I called out to my wife. "Why do we have Spam in the closet?"
"You mean unsolicited bulk messages sent electronically?"
"No--the canned, precooked meat product made by the Hormel Corporation."
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No one writes epics anymore. Why? Perhaps it's because we no longer share mythologies. Once there was a shepherd, and now there is a Google bus loaded with pricks. Yes, you say, but they are good at math. Each and every one of them. And this is true. I envy them…
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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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Normally I would have never drank such a wine, but it was late on a Friday evening and the bottle was on the house...
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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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He leans in close then, close enough that when he speaks, his words tiptoe out and tuck me in.
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You can’t start living in The Netherlands just like that; you need to be registered first. Once an official has confirmed you’re the person you claim to be, you can start in a job. Once an employer has confirmed you’re employed, you can apply for yo
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