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He spotted her in Sarasota Whole Foods surveying the artichokes
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The rain pelted down, it got dark, and they couldn't see a thing. The wind roared like a thousand locomotives.
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I can’t decide whether I want to be buried or cremated when I die.
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My eyes don’t close but hers are shut tight, and something inside tells me that to this girl, I could be absolutely anyone.
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there’s more to life than poontang
but not when you’re sixteen and
your hands are full of heavy breasts
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The new king hunted often. We heard her whirring above, the terrible whirring a forest of—, and she drifted over our city half dangling from the chopper, rifle barrel glinting.
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He sat at the bar and waited for her. He looked at the noon drinkers with indifferent eyes.
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“Maybe you should consider dating your terrorist,” my dad said to me. “Most terrorists, I think their problem is they can’t get a date. "
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He bought damaged and used sex dolls online.
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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Four Quartets is a slender book which/
can be read with intensity in its entirety
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I met Barry Hannah once in my life. I’d come to Oxford, MS, to meet an entirely different writer whom I thought then and think now very highly of. I’d also come to escape from another slew of regrets. Oxford is a great city to run away to.
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It's a tunnel, you know, like the neck of a bottle, the tunnel the hair comes up, it's coming out soon, I'm an adolescent now, dammit.
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I bought the goldfish at different pet shops out of town, a few at a time, until I had two hundred or more in the freezer.
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The last time I saw Jackson, I didn’t write down the set list. This time I didn’t write down the set list, either.
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They called him “Albert, the Human Armadillo,” and he was. Rows of hard scales ran down the course of his chest, and he was studied and biopsied by doctor after doctor. “Psoriasis,” they said. “Or, eczema.” They prescribed ointments and oils that left him
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I was always more comfortable with the ponies than you were / more comfortable with betting windows and two-dollar bills than you were
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There are things we must not say.
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blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and litte Maria with her summerset bangs
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...It's my advice that this Fourth of July the Office of Homeland Security post the following instructions on your web site www.Ready.gov — people should act like my dog Lucy and just stay inside under the bed and tremble...
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The stars align against us. Lines of force/
collaborate to push us off the edge/
into the dark abyss we’ve joked about.
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The hotel sits on the highest point in Shimla: a place of cedar-scented air, an aggressive monkey population, and summer houses left by the British Raj.
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It was the shock of black hair twisted into a long thick braid that got our attention and made us want to find meaning here. Albert thought he recognized the hair in the grave.
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"Now, here daddy was on the back porch at night talking with some man about leaving."
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Two types coexist- the sanguine/
and exsanguinated./
My skin is cool/
and pale as moonlight
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I asked him his name and here’s the kicker, Leiby. It means lion.
You know what? I said mine is Levi, how do you do.
That means to accompany—like in the root of the word, it’s got that meaning.
As in levayah, funeral in Hebrew. Does that only
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After he got on one knee, and she said, I do. After they watched the televised bombs disappear the city. After everyone fell asleep. After shock and awe, him and her making love…
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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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