1633 5 3
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Twenty-two tornadoes tore through Toronto, spiraling steel and stone to the streets where she stood, texting her best friend.
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163322
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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163342
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Something was changing.
We could sense it in the circling air. A loss of stillness - and we'd been still for so long.
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163332
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The night we broke into Bron-yr-Aur it was too cold to make love. I said I wasn't horny anyway. You put your hand on my forehead: Are you ill?
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163343
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163296
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I held her hand through two divorces, I warned her that gorgeous Geoffrey was homosexual when she was oblivious, and I fed her children when she was off at rehab (four times before it 'took').
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1632125
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the memories return like they do every year at this time
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163282
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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163274
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He calls it an owl glass: he’s allowed: he’s six.
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163200
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"You've fallen out of love with me, is that it? That you'll leave me for another girl, who has bigger boobs and fucks you better than I do."
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163200
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...the fatal bleeding-out of the love receptors. They call it “Juliet's Tears.”
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163275
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If the Titanic rises from the bottom of the sea,
I will meet you on deck, in a deck chair.
Fully dressed for a change.
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163233
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By February, I had decided,
That you'd tear out my throat every morning
if it meant your favorite song would play from my neck.
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163297
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a girl with wolves, dogs and a bear
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163231
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It was cloudy, the way he liked it -- no baking in the sun. People passed occasionally. He sniffed at the joggers, “Health Nuts,” he dubbed them. He hadn’t exercised since his last high school gym class.
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1632127
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Foolish boy, you chose
your parents poorly-
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163286
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Our afterlife depends upon//
what interesting shape
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163100
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“Jesus Christ!” the man screams in pain, and a chorus of “Ewww” is heard from the girls' bench, where the severed body part has landed in a Yoplait strawberry yogurt.
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163162
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Eddie meets Sarah Packard, a “college girl” played by Piper Laurie. She walks with a limp, a fact Eddie doesn’t notice at first because she’s sitting down at a diner table in a bus station. She’s alcoholic and writes poetry.
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163142
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There was a small slanted hole through the edge of the door, and another one in the door frame. She pushed the door closed to check. The holes matched up.
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163162
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I took a lover on Ibiza either because he was clean-smelling or because he had a hotel room and there were none to be had.
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163172
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I must have been six years old at that time, but the events of…
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163120
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In traffic I cry bloody murder, but my bloodlust subsides once I'm in Valhalla. Chip Whitehead wants to see me on the 22nd floor before I start my shift. Charlie and the other suits have been looking at me funny since I sent Chip a memo suggesting the recession…
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163164
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This Tippy’s name was Cheryl — something both of them were so far not committing to paper or saying. Unusual in a salesman, she thought. He is insincere and intends to sell her something.
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163061
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You look at people
and despise them all.
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163066
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some answers are enough to make you cry or laugh yourself to death
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163070
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I heard this story from my grandmother who heard it from her grandmother who heard it from an uncle, who was a monkey.
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163052
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This is Peter’s office. The room is small, and the wood paneling is painted white. Light colors, Peter has been told, make a room appear larger.
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163065
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The clarinet and the accordion are brothers, I see. Big, fat men with curly, klezmer hair.
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