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“Are you my neighbor in 3D?” Was she?
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162131
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At five a family relative took my life away from me and no one cared
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162131
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It was a phone call we never expected. You were so full of life and joy and the sound of your laugh was pierced in our minds. Two strokes. That's what they said. No explanation, no back story. We worried we would lose you. Immediately, all of our memories with you started…
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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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One by one our friends are kicking the bucket. Let's get together. It's now or never, we figure.
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162111
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The dog was there before Vera was there, so she supposed she couldn't hate it too much. It wasn't like she had to live with the thing, either, though she might as well have hosted it in her ear for the eight months it took that particular batch of neighbo
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162166
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What she didn't tell me was that her brother Carl got fried during an electrical storm.
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162110
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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162111
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i killed a poetic boy yesterday. the old ladies in theshadows swore at him when he was walking home proud ashell with a new pocketknife. they told him we dienext week so laugh like you got limes for balls. hecalled them drippy old vultures in his native tongue.they didn't…
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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
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16211012
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A cult is one thing; it defies common sense that a commonly educated person cannot escape cultist thinking and belonging. That cult, A.A., is girded by police, fire, therapy, hospitals, insurance companies, and courts.
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162120
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Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
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162100
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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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162022
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It would be great if next door to every restaurant, there was a 24 hour dental surgery. Then you could sneak in and grab a few magazines to read if you’re unfortunate enough to be dining alone.
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162073
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The world is having an off day. The sun is now lavender in color, soft on the eyes, and we stare at the new sun all day without ill effect.
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Their specialty is the roasted Australian hare, long ears intact, arranged on a bed of sassafras.
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162000
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“We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'," said Dostoevsky. Well, sometimes, I think otherwise.
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162000
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Dr. van Roos reminded the group that trauma is trauma...
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162098
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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16201813
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One must be drenched in words.
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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162074
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You're a good dog, she whispered to him, a good brave dog. Her face was tight with soap.
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In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. What on Earth does that mean? What the hell? Earth, hell, heaven, they were good concepts. He took a rib out of Adam and began to write with it.
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Every morning if I don't have to go potty....
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She was about 35 or so and noticeably pregnant. She was near hysteria when she knocked on our apartment door, right across the street in L.A. from a convent. But she took one last desperate wild look at me, standing at the door. I saw the animal in her ey
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Hideki likes the uncomfortable face one makes when trying to "break wind" after eating too many dried potatoes.
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the swan drives a car ( window down; wing half hanging out ) …
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What's the protocol for telling people your spouse has cancer? How do you tell your son, your friends, your co-workers? How do you tell your mother? How do you tell her mother?
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They stand together in the doorway looking at the crib.
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