1620 16 8
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Their specialty is the roasted Australian hare, long ears intact, arranged on a bed of sassafras.
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16202114
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Walking to class, Paula routinely fishes around in her purse to be sure the condom she thinks of as a close friend, even naming it Rhonda, is in there to help her avoid a pregnancy yet, even so, Paula admits that sometimes she daydreams in that boring economics class,…
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162031
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At five a family relative took my life away from me and no one cared
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162031
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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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162065
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There is an empty space,
between every note in rock 'n' roll,
where they have buried John Bonham,
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1620139
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Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
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162010
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Lu peeked at his cards again. They were still jacks, and they still looked mighty nice.
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162075
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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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162095
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Uzma accepts my invitation for dinner.
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162000
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“Monetising the mecosystem” Theobald blathered, “extend the value proposition, core competencies create cash rich commitment free conurbations…partnership models proliferate non essential services spawning new opportunity…” Peregrine tried to
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1620102
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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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162061
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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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162086
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the swan drives a car ( window down; wing half hanging out ) …
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162094
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“Are you my neighbor in 3D?” Was she?
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162020
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A large crowd of students began to gather around the base of the building that housed the administrative offices, where my hearing was being held. The meeting room was up on the second floor.
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162000
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161989
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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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16191611
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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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161998
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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16191813
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One must be drenched in words.
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161974
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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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161976
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So, I escaped from the Iron Curtain out of Czechoslovakia, as was called then. That was in 1956 I escaped, and came to Chicago where all of you were for some time already. I know our grandparents came over in early part of century, but my part of family
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161965
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52. they hate the word hate
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16191312
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161900
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Everyone else in the bar was looking everywhere else: it was as though they were alone while Journey played loudly all around. “Streetlights, people,” she sang. Time didn't move. What she must be like while driving, singing to herself with the windows fog
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161900
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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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161988
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161977
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They stand together in the doorway looking at the crib.
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161987
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He died in the ditch he dug.
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161876
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"We all knew that the thirty-eight year old mother, with the house on the hill, was having an affair with Darren, a fifteen year old boy, but no one did anything about it. When he was sixteen the parents found out and were furious, but the police were ne
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