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The serious writer looks back on a long and distinguished career as an herbologist.
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175798
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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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17562010
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Practice has perfected disengagement.
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175696
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I have always admired flat-chested women.
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1756136
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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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17562011
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The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
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175652
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But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
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17561811
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It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
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175600
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At street level there is a small arrow on which is printed “Museum of Numbers” that points up a long narrow staircase. There is a restaurant on the first floor. All the way up the stairs, the air is permeated with smell of fried foods
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175611
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I concluded that Parisian sexuality must be partially indebted to the cricket or grasshopper. The entrance to their flat was a wood door scarred by scriptures common to places frequented by people who have not yet made their mark on the world.
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175511
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[CAUTION: IF YOU ARE UNDULY "FIXATED" ON GOD, AMERICA, MOM, APPLE PIE, AND/OR BASEBALL ... YOU MAY WANT TO AVERT YOUR EYES!]
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175511
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...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
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175576
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didn't know how to do it
just tried to squeeze on the teats
didn't know I had to grab up on the udder and pull
Unca Ole laughed
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175500
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Back when they were younger, David was always gushing about every little thing in his head, and his openness appealed to her as much as his muscular frame did. But after that year they spent apart, he was always ... smiling. Smiling and vague.
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175553
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My sweet baby angel has baby hair Baby angel has a golden cross lit looking at the crystal pig and kind mare The drowning unicorn comes from the waves in fits. My sweet baby angel has baby talkBaby angel has a diamond shape scarburied heart shaped…
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17551617
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Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
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175510
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My only celebrity anecdote involves seeing Barbara Bush in the back of the Presidential limo ...
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175532
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She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
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175597
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They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
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175410
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[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
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175400
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There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.
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175476
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On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.
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175411
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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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175410
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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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175300
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The money stank on the table. Money is dirty she said, one of the dirtiest things. So many people touch it. This pile of brine would not explain its reek, only demanded that we accepted its stench as requisite. It had to have been the cash that stank, prior to its arrival…
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175398
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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175343
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"Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
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175321
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The chipping sound started around the time Susannah reached puberty. Not all at once, it was just now and then at first.“What's that noise?” she'd say, and everyone would cock their heads to listen. Her mother eventually took her to the doctor. He said it…
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Throw them up there but try to make it look tidy. Try to become a little bit paranoid, just enough that you slightly overestimate how much they think of you at all.
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The clacking ventilator reminds me of ice cubes rattling in your highball...
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