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“When I get like this? What about what you get like this? If you know my answer you know you look like my answer. Otherwise, how would you know my answer?”
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177811
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I don’t personally know any models—let alone any supermodels—at this point in my life but some years back my father, who was working for the Woolite Corporation, was in charge of hiring models for them.
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177831
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177810
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You're stupid drunk. And not feeling so good. You know you should stop doing this. But what else is there to do, especially since your brother went in? And now Roberto's gone to pick up his lady and left you alone, empty. Couldn't even drive you home. You don't…
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177722
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I remember thinking the seasons are arriving later every year,
as if the world has been slowed by the weight of graves.
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177733
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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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177700
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Sofia looked around and found herself at a boulevard. She could see the town exit ahead of her. The bike still lied on the ground.
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177755
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The white faces of the train look up in an attempt to satisfy presumption, smoothing out any interest into glassy eyed gestures toward looking but lacking the very important quality of sight.
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1777169
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If love could only by heat be bound
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1777139
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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17772011
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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177752
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But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
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1777178
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177732
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They could have heard a pin drop in the car for the rest of the ride to her house, where she looked at him one last time and found nothing admirable, nothing memorable about him.
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177795
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Uzma accepts my invitation for dinner.
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177753
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Smoking is like hooking up with an ex-girlfriend: you know she's bad for you and that it won't work out, but it feels so familiar and comfortable and so easy to slide back into.
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177700
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If you were the ozone,
I’d want to leave you gaping.
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177764
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It was a lover’s dark. They had been talking for hours when daylight lost interest and had gone elsewhere for sport.
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177632
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“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
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177633
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Everyone was shocked when they heard Tinkerbelle was six days gone and had got so heavy she couldn't fly. Who could have done it, everyone asked, but Tinkerbelle wasn't telling. So no one knew. That isn't true. I knew, and in this Declaration I swear I will tell…
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177620
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His velvet mouth, shaped perfectly to intertwine with hers, teases the space between them until its caress finds her.
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177653
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The Black Thing spread over the room, eating away his mother's face as well as the doctors and nurses who dashed in a frenzy around him until they too were swallowed in the black singing cloud.
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17761811
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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177621
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...something darkly malevolent looming above him...
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177610
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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177697
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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1776107
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I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...
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177653
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"...you are a freak of nature..."
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177576
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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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1775136
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Valentine Dayso excitingit means he really loves herwhat will he bringshe waitshe comes home with a hang dogexpression on his faceher valentine was leftat the gambling table
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