1427 4 3
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“106 more miles,” she said.
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142700
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“They’re not gonna shoot him?” Rick cried.
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142796
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142711
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President Kennedy’s national physical fitness program tried to reverse the incoming tide of obesity, but for many it was too late.
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142753
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Buyers of freelance writing have a well-deserved reputation for responding slowly, thereby increasing your pleasure in much the same way that the Pointer Sisters longed for a slow hand.
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142796
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Erased. Like chalk across my body,
a fine powder of forgetfulness,
with a few swipes --- all those names
and faces, gone. The letters burned.
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142700
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This story is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental and unintentional and should not be inferred. (Really!)
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14262014
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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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142611
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Her cash. It smelled like seven-dollar-a-quart gardenia perfume and cave aged cheese—like hope overgrown with mildew.
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142644
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Francesca is a sweet girl and everything, but her incessant doting on Paolo is best left private . . .
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142653
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under your skin the moon is alive
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142654
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If I do not hear you leaving by the door... The nearness here of this yet questions when I know you will not come so back again, Nowise the same as you were there before. My own reflection, centred at its core On knowing each …
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142630
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142665
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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14261610
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They teach that emotional pain is physical pain, culture pain is science pain, but they cannot test for the absence of these synaptic conclusions. I will say, if you can test me and find something missing then you can supplement me for the missing thing.
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142632
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They watched the seven o'clock news.
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1426109
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He just up and dropped dead one day, Charles said. Pretty tough on Karen, I opined. Charles looked the other way.
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142642
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You want to get laid talking socks
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142654
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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142621
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It was all things considered a particularly odd sight, which Annalise did not know how to handle.
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14261513
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I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.
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14261311
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Enough, Trump. We've had it my dear, with your pink ties, your hairs, your swagger, your towers, your money, tempers, walls, bombs, smarts, snarls, pouts and doubts, bigotty bile, and once again, style. We just…
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1425127
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This liberated you/
to grind me hard/
on the dance floor
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142575
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Nothing changes; the moon arcs its mindful lemon eye. . .
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142541
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At a rest stop in Montpelier, they stopped to buy Cokes and gum from the vending machines. He was showing off, trying to jimmy one of the locks with a safety pin but it stayed locked and she laughed at him and he said goddamn, look at all a them Milkyways
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142522
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142585
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—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!
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1425146
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He hates this body no less now/
than he did at 14 for its pudginess/
and the hair that can’t conform
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142510
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No matter how much he composes and prepares, he cannot override the electrical trigger in his brain. Something to do with the resonance of physical memory. It remembers amplitudes of current.
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142532
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Instead, I get things like,
“Why can’t you find a nice man with cancer or a bum leg?”
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