1821 11 10
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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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182197
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It sometimes happens a student remains a friend long after you both have abandon academe.
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1821129
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I had a crappy room on the fourth floor of a crappy hotel.
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182020
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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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182032
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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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182033
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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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1820134
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Here are a few tips/instructions to help you out (though I'm sure you'll do just fine by yourself!):Getting to the Apt.:If you're coming from Riverside, you'll want to turn onto Magnolia. So, if you're coming from north to south on Riverside, that means you'll want to turn…
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182077
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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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182033
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Don’t worry about what went aloud. I said nothing.
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182044
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Sitting near her desk, like a dunce cap,
red
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18201715
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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182043
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Viewed correctly, nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of clichés. A successful landscape is their pleasing rearrangement.
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182042
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God's honest truth, I wake up every morning when my clock punches out its dulcet, insistent clangs, a setting called Ultra Zen Up & Out. I brush my teeth with a blue dollar store toothbrush and watch one of the five morning TV shows designed to let me know the weather…
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1820137
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His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.”
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182011
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“Man, that Fats just nothin’ but a powerhouse, nothin’ but ‘Jesus Rolled Away the Stone’ and them Cats his apostles.” La KeeSha replied, “Ya’ll a real Blues Daddy now.”
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182063
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Suds, like gossamer bandages at her wrists, concealed the turbulence below but could not relieve it.
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182000
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181976
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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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181977
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181985
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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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181942
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I think for a second that I should have called my husband out to witness this thing, but I am instantly made aware of why I have not.
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181965
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There’s a hole in my sock, just large enough that my big toe keeps slipping out.
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18191513
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I am eternal/
as long as the power holds
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181977
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My wife and I were looking for a "fixer-upper." We were strange that way. We were leaving a rental which had cat tunnels built into the walls. One villa we toured had a heartbeat. In the basement, in place of a well pump, was a heart made of fibrous roots which had…
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181955
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. . . did you notice yesterday afternoon how for an entire quarter hour five o’clock itself looked for a few minutes as if it would never arrive?
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181967
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Just take the mountain curves
as tightly to the inside and
as fast as surface conditions permit
and the road’s edge
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181932
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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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181910
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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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181851
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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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181853
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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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