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The border crossing at El Paso will soon be arriving. I'm apprehensive about Mexico, all the violence.
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hoping for a happy outcome/
like a kindly voice on the line
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177777
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They stand together in the doorway looking at the crib.
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177775
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A performance is a series of situations. Each situation defines the characters that are in it.
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177766
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It was always your body that told so much --
lips working some secret out
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Sit back n enjoy the show in a puffy puffed-up chair
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1777105
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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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177766
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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177630
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“He looks funny again,” the twins would say. “Cow looks funny, Mummy.”
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177600
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Dreams will show you a life that might or might not be yours, but you better believe that they've got to serve when you're asked to come up with a story."--Frank Baron, the night he made bail and left town1. First Blood in Dreams Long Ago The…
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Brazilian girls yammer
with their book bags
up against my leg.
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I looked around in my pantry but there were no sentences I felt like cooking.
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The only silver lining? The man in my life and I are in this together.
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Enough, Trump.We've had it my dear, with your pink ties, your hairs, your swagger, towers, your plenty of monies,your tempers, your honeys. I don't speak for all, not at all, but for many who never did like your style or bile, your tenacious temerity,…
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“Why do you write filth?” they howl
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March 16, 2006 My mail, e-mail, and phone calls go from the ridiculous to the sublime. Apologies for the cliché, but I can't resist its perfect applicability: In my mailbox today yet another catalogue of boob jobs in bikinis and an invitation to explore…
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177600
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Mayra heard the bell ring and opened the door to her small home in downtown Havana. Mayra was in her 50's and had the beautiful dark olive skin of most Cuban people who have a mix of Caucasian and Negro in their blood.
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I’m supposed to be writing poems but it’s Saturday morning and I’m watching cartoons.
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177596
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I have always admired flat-chested women.
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177599
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Requires one of those leaps.
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17751410
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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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177520
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Enid closes her bedroom door when she changes her clothes but leaves it ajar when she's doing her face; is she hoping some small talk might reach her dainty ears?
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Scientists have determined that a tiny freshwater organism known as the "bdelloid rotifer" gave up sex 40 million years ago. And you thought the spark had gone out of your marriage.
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177500
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Back in the Dark Ages, the Mongols invented the first hamburger pattie. They put slabs of beef under their horses' saddles and after a few miles of rough riding -- voila! a flattened piece of cow meat. They then proceeded t
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177500
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You enter the lobby of the office building tentatively at first - you're a little nervous about this interview, after all - but you recall how spectacular and professional you dressed that morning. Plus you read through the company's LinkedIn profile at least five times…
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177596
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One frozen hand protruded from the snow.
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When you encounter a body laying on the road, drive over it.
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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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