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We lived across, the street, across North Govenor, from a pretty art student whose stripper name was Jan the Blonde Bombshell.
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172732
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”My goodness how that child nurses hope,” Edward’s Grandad would often say, “were it not for her where indeed would this family be?”
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1727167
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The sun is going to slice your goddamn face open.
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172777
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She caretakes, he takes care
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172786
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Get something cheap and light at Target. Trash hell out of it. Encourage baby to urp up in it.
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172644
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The last of your tenuous septum dissolves when you press the nozzle of the neti pot against it.
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172633
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Karen likes to make a big deal about life experience. Specifically how much more she has than me. What that actually means, she's never made clear. The definition changes and mutates as the years go by, always in her…
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172611
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Paul had come to Hawaii, like many young haoles from the mainland, to party. Partying proved to be lucrative for him. By early October 1982 he had done well for himself in Hawaii, living in a country house with sprawling lawns that held back the jungle foliage…
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1726117
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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17261310
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Fortunately, when the bird hits the sliding glass doors in our den, I know what to do.
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172693
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Where I work people use words like leverage. They do not appear to denote anything.
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172610
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you and i exist
outside of the chaos and noise
entwined in eternal embrace
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172620
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I am a shadow. Cooler than liquid. I don't need a container to take shape.
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17251813
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One must be drenched in words.
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172500
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Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. It was an unexpected meeting, but one that was sure to bring a lot of change for both. They met at a work event. Some friends wanted to put together a company and they had both been invited to be part of the project. Boy smiled. Girl remained…
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1725119
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Be careful when you choose your muse,
for she may be a siren.
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172550
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In a little dirt church at the end of the world stands the ikon of an unrecognized saint.
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172500
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Well, it was on a Monday and you know how bad Mondays are to begin with. I had been up real late the night before playin’ poker and drinkin’. I was thinking that after a couple of hours the hangover would wear off and I’d be okay, but instead I s
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172522
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We have a responsibility,” she says, “to enrich our local business community while delivering quality products to customers.” She had brought over some application forms for the Better Business Bureau, and we sit at the big table and fill them out, marki
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172524
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We got our holes in our hearts bundled onto soft wrapping cloth just like the gentleman on TV said; with smiles we set out towards our matching end of the same old stories. That's just the way…
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172531
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I almost forgot. Her nipples taste like that syrup from a can of peaches. The kind you aren’t supposed to eat if you are 18 or older. The kind that adds baggage to the hips and I’m certainly not about to take out an insurance policy on my ass.
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172532
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The most beautiful possible thing is to deprive all places of their meanings.
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1725116
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One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living
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1724238
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To be honest, I've always wanted to be black
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172400
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You know what parents have to do to get an Xbox? They don't just stand in line and someone hands them an Xbox, OK? That's sacrifice. They have to sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice. I mean, I chase alpacas a mile every night in subfreezing conditions,
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172400
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Scribble something basic with traces of spectacular,pen every pint of pain spilled during the massacrewhittle the convoluted down to the vernacularboiled the whole story, now you got everybody crackin' upnow step back from the business like, “man, that's wack as…
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172496
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I have always admired flat-chested women.
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1724127
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Val walks through the world, absorbed in the day to day. A plainspoken narrator drones on in his mind. The nondescript voice marks time to the beat of Val's banal footfall, hums along with the whir of Val's modest, midsize sedan. The narration is loudest in the twilight…
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He doesn’t intend to lie after this. For now, he just wants to take in the sea and the quiet.
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