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My father was dating already. Her name was Shelly. She had a man-like body, buck teeth and red hair, a big forehead. I don't know what bog she climbed out of. She wanted to fill in for my mother, but I locked her out of my room. I just wanted to be sad and hold…
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the doomed, but splendid,
first year GT40.
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I don't know how long I was down on the curb. When I came around it took several minutes to realize that it wasn't the moon overhead at all but a street light and the sticky feeling stuff I was lying in was, yeah, my blood. And the hand on my shoulder wasn't hers. I…
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183100
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Dr. van Roos reminded the group that trauma is trauma...
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183176
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On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.
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She was now sitting in her bathtub. The warmth of the water made her pale, rich vanilla skin flushed with the fullness of circulation as her pores continued to allow the passage of her toxins from her system.
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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It's a good thing too—because Of the way that feeling Made her even more beautiful than usual. You shouldn't doubt such an obvious Feeling. It's a good thing— Because frankly you have Been informed before. When Beauty …
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183132
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I’ll tell you what’s wrong
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183166
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The coffin-sized pit in his basement wasn’t freshly dug.
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When he took Medieval German Lit in graduate school, Ackermann read Der Ackermann aus Böhmen by Johannes von Tepl. His professor was amused both by his last name and that his grandparents were Germans from Bohemia. Of course, only his grandmother was from Bohemia and…
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183176
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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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Our ink was disappearing. All of it.
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behind the curtainof a ballsy fragilitythere lives an easethat was not easythere exists a gracethat is not always gracefulbeauty can maskcheekbones that sometimes look sadwhen they are smilingeven grin determinationneeds downtimethe prize is still thereeven if the eyes…
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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I cannot begin to list all the ways this conversation can go downhill from here, so I hang up the phone quietly.
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183010
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I know this is going to sound crazy, possibly because it is crazy, but still, please hear me out. I'm a relatively sane person. Sane as any of you, or I was. Just, what I'm saying is that anything that happened to me could happen to you, and you might do the same things I…
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183097
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It sometimes happens a student remains a friend long after you both have abandon academe.
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1830103
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Often I eat lunch at the hospital. The cafeteria may be the best place to eat in town.
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182985
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I'll never be a Republican Megadonor or a Doomed Aviatrix. But I'm okay with that.
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We’re on our way out, my brother and me, to the graveyard.
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182951
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I sat on the corner of her desk ... Angela Merkel can be a sweetie when she wants to be.
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The bearded old man, raised his weary body from the bedroll he had slept on last night and slowly stood up. Bones creaked as he worked the stiffness out of his joints, the pain and memory of endless days and nights riding the…
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It’s been a series of bad clams
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182932
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He lit another reed - a new score orchestrating in his head - his thoughts swirling around the older man; there was something else going on here…
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Would a chickenshit leave her like I did yesterday?
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182911
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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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Her purse still hangs on the knob by the door, and seeing it is all that keeps Josh from freaking out because he knows she can’t go too far or too long without her purse.
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Scavenge at that address only if you feel possessed of great courage, a profound faith in resurrection or reincarnation, or an impatient desire for a premature date with certain death.
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