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174087
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But what if it grew into a nasty tea party-ish bimbo right winger -- a little Michelle Bachmann nubbin?
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174097
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174021
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I am far from home, wherever that is.
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174000
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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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174054
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[marbles] [blither-blather] [blarg]
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174065
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174066
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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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173932
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I have committed to nothing. Therefore I have committed to something. The first sentence is now moot, and this story will eat itself.
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1739108
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That's demeaning enough, but not as hard to take as the customers. They're all jaded hipsters, thumb diddling smartphone freaks, pretending their online interactions actually count as relationships and that “tweets” are real conversations. It's sad, reall
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17391415
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The place is buzzing with little women, all clad in black smocks.
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173920
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It takes almost an hour before I drift to sleep on the bus. When I wake up in Crescent City, I’m surprised. Maybe I was going somewhere else in my sleep. Walking out of the station, it feels like a strange place. Somewhere I’ve never been before. The
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173962
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This wasn't going to be about her anymore.She tied her strong purple balloon to the neck of the wounded horse. Her skirt and her top felt like armor's breath. The tingle across her scalp felt warm. Small rug scrapes that made her think of her last dog, before she died.This…
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1739128
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...ghosts still resentful, ghosts far from home...
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173996
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One frozen hand protruded from the snow.
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17391411
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I visited the grave of Rimbaud. / It was pale blue
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173910
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Alicia got to third block early and scribbled down some of the derivatives homework. Others trickled in intermittently, drifting to their seats like impurities getting caught in a filter.
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173998
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1739125
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Can’t you do anything right?
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173964
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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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173967
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I start with a morsel of truth, then hide it with lies...
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173800
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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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173820
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I was thinking everything was OK, until one day I woke up and realized that I was living on an entirely different planet, and you seemed like a complete stranger to me. I was feeling so ashamed of these feelings, that I couldn't even tell you about them. I couldn't…
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17382520
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I read my book of names. Over and over again. Our name appeared in the newspaper 254,991 times between 1896 and 1944.
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17381512
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He hiked the hills of her condition
She biked the path of his delight
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173883
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He was supposed to be a garden gnome. Give pause to the squirrels, keep an eye on the impatiums. We found him at Wegman’s. He looked hopeful and observant.
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173800
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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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173844
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Kick your employer in the ass. Emotions are strange experiments in honesty.
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1738128
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she lifted and threw her legs out the open
side front window of the speeding auto
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My mother's afraid the dog will drown. It's raining and our street is flooding and the dog is standing on top of his doghouse. My mother is pregnant. I can stand beneath her stomach and not even see her face. I watch her from the kitchen window. She's shoeless. She holds…
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