1548 10 8
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Sunday morning beginning with a bang. Accused, found wanting, sentenced.
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1548104
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"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.
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154821
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Bake sweet rolls and make love to your new wife, fall asleep for three years and grow a beard.
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154888
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“I won't live here,” Beth said, waving her hand to indicate the small Southern town in which they were having dinner—the most delicious fried chicken either of them had ever tasted—in a restaurant located in an antebellum mansion. She looked…
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154710
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He first saw her stepping off a water taxi by the Long Docks in the rain at night, her right arm atrophied from some early childhood disease, dangling like an apology, her other holding a cigarette. Her wet black hair hung past her shoulders and her eyes
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154776
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The pristine Hudson's/waters dance in the dark of/the East River's rinse.
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154750
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15471717
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Something about shadows and last time and driving.
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154787
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tumbling for you from afar as close-up. They will rewrite your dancing form like a proper magical spell on all their maddest days, using the branches of cherished trees dipped into the trapped wells of certain hosts of …
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154763
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“I mean it, Hanna. I don't want you to.” But his leg felt carved away where her head had lain. One stupid thing jostling another for attention. He was afraid that if she touched him again, he'd have her on the ground.
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1547147
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We flew./
In my dreams, I can fly.
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1547139
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I don’t remember much about kindergarten.... The teacher’s name was Mrs. Halverson. She was nice.
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15471312
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I asked him where he hurt and he said everywhere.
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15471711
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Each little token is the world/
as you knew it at each time and place
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154666
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“When I was six years old, Dad came home from Vietnam and picked me and Mama up from her sister's house in Boston. We packed a U-Haul with everything we owned from T.V. to toothbrush. Dad hitched the trailer to the Rambler and drove us South, back home to Carolina. A…
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154655
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F.B.I. then or: "I said later 'for a boob job' and imagined her, a public lawyer, wandering Arizona on foot unable to hide a Playboy-Mansion style rack."
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154644
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A tough enough signal to read under the best of meteoric circumstances, this is one maybe I'll keep on thinking about. I might be able to make something everlasting out of this crazy price for love after all. I no longer…
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1546107
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1546154
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This cell the sole certainty,
all else steeped in mystery.
Why should we be here?
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1546105
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He was instantly on her, pulling at her nightgown
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154665
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The clarinet and the accordion are brothers, I see. Big, fat men with curly, klezmer hair.
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1546910
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it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence.
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1546158
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What's that snitch doin' here?
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154655
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It is said that lovers find lips in the dark through secret brain circuitry.
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154622
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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Every morning, Wilma's husband Richard would cross the street and visit with a neighbor, always after the neighbor's husband left for work. Wilma was a loner, never bothered with neighbors. She enjoyed sitting on her patio in her lounge chair,…
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154620
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Contemporary persecution of Christians takes on milder forms of torture like having to explain away something Pat Robertson said, or constantly having to hear about Fred Phelps picketing funerals because he happens to hate homosexuals.
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154651
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I want you closeI want to feel youinside me,softening me untilmy borders are blurredand I'm hardly breathing,my heart swellingso big itbrings me to my knees,I want to know thepain of losing youeach time youclose your eyes andgo to sleep anddream of someone else,I want to…
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154621
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They had a deal, she reminded him. If he didn’t want to wear a condom all the time, he’d have to help with her birth control.
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