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There will always be some
who misread the dance
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Blending in at a rock concert in ballet flats was harder than I thought it would be. The heavy eye makeup and lit cigarette I never brought to my lips put me somewhere between “Trying Too Hard” and “Bless Her Heart.”
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153243
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"this is the year I'm going to plant a yucca tree in the garden."
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153210
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I'm going up and down elevators all over the Financial District and I have no office.
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153220
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Benton showed her his old room, a shrine of old posters and records. But it had been cleaned out, made to look like a guest room. “Kiss me,” Benton said. “April.” “That was just a name, so don't get any…
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Falling Water almost fell./
12 million dollars later//
it will splay itself a little longer
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153110
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Peggy woke up in the bedroom smelling burned pumpkin and she instantly knew her husband Tim had remained unconscious and insensible on the couch again and let the candle burn down. She and Lennon had watched him the previous night take control of the…
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153142
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Albertine had never loved Agnés. Oh! She had liked her very much. Especially her wit, the skin at the nape of her neck, even the two freckles on her arse that would bloom when licked.
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153156
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in our teens as tough as the cold/we wore denim and flannel with our boots/kicking at whichever wind blew . . .
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153150
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Flash’s hackles stood brushlike but he kept his head bowed just enough beneath the bigger dog’s stare to delay the inevitable fight. Flash, Mal thought approvingly, would pick the time and place.
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153132
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They looked like girl’s jeans. Matt held them against himself in the mirror. Not that girl’s jeans were a mark against them. Usually, girls had better jeans anyway. Matt took two of the biggest pairs out of the big chest in his grandmother’s back closet.
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153164
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It’s all a matter of warped mirrors. As in the multi-mirrored passage I stood before as a boy
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153152
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i built a house in the trees
before i lived in the sky
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153152
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Maintaining a healthy love life requires effort and professional advice, and Your Love Life columnist would be happy to assist you.
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153110
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I’ve done my part of the job in conservative clothing. Lonnie’s done her part looking like Dolly Parton.
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153131
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I used to see kids at the mall with those extendable "kid leashes". Like the ones made for chihuahuas. Like the ones made to squash a good story, you know...
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153112
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From a window, the young Pole Krzysztof Penderecki saw resistance fighters hanged by Nazis...
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153166
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It was always your body that told so much --
lips working some secret out
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153120
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“Little Pig, Little Pig, Let me in.” One of them yelled out from behind the door. The wolves always loved to taunt him, itched for any chance they could get to fight.
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153010
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His lawyer, with looming, supermodel good looks, had a mild case of Tourette's. She would be talking to you and then there would be a little tic and her head would bob slightly to the left, and her eyes would go a little blank, and then this very strange
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My first girlfriend had blue Christmas lights strung on trees in front of her stone house. My family had all gone to bed. When midnight came, it was snowing.
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"...easier to get milk from a male tiger than mercy from him."
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1530136
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Before Sandy, there was hype of Sandy. On the third day of hype, the broadcasters laughed. Then B-O-O-M, lights out, houses flooded, and Obama was re-elected.
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When his brown eyes met the lapis colored stones representing hers, she leaned forward from her exalted position and whispered to him, “Save me.”
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153000
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Some things you never forget, especially if they are repeated frequently. I cannot hear her voice saying those words, now, I have forgotten its timber, its pitch, but I remember the words.
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Joseph K. ran a publishing house in the shadow of the Castle.
Perhaps “publishing house” is too grand a title. Joseph K. kept a battery of six or seven (depending on repairs) manual typewriters, a crate of carbon paper, and a large stapling machine
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153000
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For you –
because you deserve more effort
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153000
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"Oh — what is this 'work' thing the philosophers speak of" sort of thing.
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The next time I see you, I’m going to pretend you’re a stranger, and that I’m meeting you for the first time.
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