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The separation—the plan—had been a long time coming. After years of fighting and therapy and apologizing and, finally, silence, their marriage was about to die of exhaustion.
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Henry and I had met at the hospital. He'd been forty years my senior, but we'd been in for precisely the same reason: kidney stones.
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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My music teacher, Luigi Biagi, told me that he was done with me. He said it was time I moved on to more specialized teachers. Since my passion was composing and arranging, he recommended Al Fine.
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As a boy I fished under the Tappan Zee bridge which spans the Hudson River above New York City.
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All were part of the household of Court Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
who lost his nose in a duel as a student
and went through life thereafter wearing a gold prosthetic one instead
and who met and fell in love with a commoner who bore him eigh
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Hurried, hassling suit in front of me is being awful to the barista. So she refuses to serve him, turning away.
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Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont
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The next thing we knew, the KGB started tailing us everywhere we went. They must have heard about Lenin’s Paintings, was all we could figure. Because, what if they were real?
That night we went out to a pizza place where we saw the worst graffiti in t
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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
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She'd no doubt catch the guy's eye in the act, flash her smile and laugh in his face as an insult or invitation, depending on how she wanted things to go.
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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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I didn’t question any of it and instead sat motionless as she dropped my wrists and walked away seconds later.
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Weddings, engagements etc.
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You're thinking I don't have a conscience, right? I'm asking you.
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the steady, persistent work of beauty
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The suite of dark rooms/
extends forever./
It’s no big deal.
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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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There's this sepia-toned photograph, which my mother gave me, of my brother and me when we were still both youngsters. In the picture my brother's dressed in a skimpy checked suit whose sleeves were already too short for him — on its way to becoming my
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But no matter how we died, we all end up here, in the Meadowlark Children's Cemetery.
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when thoughts of you
waffle in through memories scent
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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"...you are a freak of nature..."
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I thought the Ferris wheel was dumb. All it did was give you a high altitude view of the little Minnesota town where I had grown up.
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‘Miguel! A pint of Guinness, please!'
I might as well have asked for his mother's immortal soul. A smile as benign as a stiletto. But he served a clean and tidy pint.
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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