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I'm subconsciously a sucker for guys who are no good for my
self-esteem. Or waistline.
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164964
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We became The World Famous Shadow Puppet Theater because we thought that the best way to become world famous was to act as though we already were.
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164953
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For reasons he couldn't fathom, his motorcycle only moved in reverse. He engaged the engine and lurched backward hard. He called a friend, a gear-head with perpetually dirty nails, asked him to look it over.
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164982
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13 rooks on a lifeless tree
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164983
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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen
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164900
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...the fatal bleeding-out of the love receptors. They call it “Juliet's Tears.”
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164933
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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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164945
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Lawrence Light had two degrees: business and theology. I liked the clean font he chose for his resume. At the interview, his face was open. His eyes were bright.
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164932
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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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16491412
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You call your wife. “Do you see what I see?” you ask.
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164943
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16491112
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Regrets lined behind him like crossties on a railroad track.
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1649106
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The trees would answer with a creak and a crackle.
Fall was near, a rotten apple.
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1648126
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"Every generation is a new generation, isn't it? What's so different about your generation?"
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164876
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In human rights, a man and a woman may marry and bring forth a family. It is a civil right in the U.S. but not a human right (as far as I know) to raise a child singly without the knowledge of the other parent.
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164853
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She worked the research desk. Like most ladies before computers and cell-phones she lead a quiet conservative life. She wore dresses, spent time with family and friends...Emma also had been stricken as a child
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164896
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THIS is what happened — the dead went into remission. Dated may 10 2010. Or it could have been some other day. They were going to be restored later. That's what we were being told. The dead were being given stones to mark their remission. They were getting…
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16481716
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saw the world was a mess
I did nothing about it, poured myself some apple juice
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164863
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A week ago, Lina had felt a pain crack over her right eyebrow. It was there every day, creeping from her ear to the middle of her forehead.
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164888
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that doesn't need any words to arrive fully formed, or too many words to be believed in at all I should say, a little something we can simply send back and forth across your time and my space without having to talk at length about it, but being a …
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164822
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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164874
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Food is silly. Eating is silly. Yet the camaraderie of sharing a table is not silly. It is sacred. It becomes silly when the jello arrives.
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1648124
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Xanax, A hand gun, And the courage to pull the trigger
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164842
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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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164862
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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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164820
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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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164833
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164766
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some answers are enough to make you cry or laugh yourself to death
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164710
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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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164700
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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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