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The closed door swallowed up both voices, and all I could make out afterward were muffled pleas and angry answers that died completely.
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120964
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I allow myself one hour every two weeks. Devoting 335 of my 336 hours to her and the kids is beyond dutiful.
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120900
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Walking into the living room and next to the tree, he handed his wife Kathy her Minnie and plopped himself on the couch. Their three kids, two girls and the youngest a boy, tore through the wrapping paper like a pack of rabid wolves tearing through a deer
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120922
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what was she like you ask? smarter than me for instance she could type alot faster. and she didn’t worry constantly about being poor or having a family looking over her shoulder. maybe that’s what she did with boys. 17 years later and she is in my bed
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120921
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"You don't need the gun," Dean said. "Bring me a bottle of peroxide and some duct tape."
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120985
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1962, What I wanted was a Levittowner rancher like my best friend had,
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12091211
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He understood that people no longer read or thought deeply about things but continued to write anyway. He understood that Einstein's theory of relativity was proved correct during the world's longest eclipse of May 29, 1919 when photos of the Hyades star cluster…
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1209108
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That TV you got me? Ruined. And the ionizer fan? Ruined too. All your clothes you left over here, all my work scrubs and weekend dresses too, soaked with that river stink water. I kept thinking bout all the dead creatures.
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120886
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Our painter man was killed by a bunch of snotty kids who were making fun of him. A gun went off. What is a noodle to do? He wasn't sitting alone in his world, anymore. Where was his famous straw hat? His trusty pipe? He desperately needed to smoke…
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120831
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He sees how he could release the duck, imagines it winging low over the water to where the others have made it safely.
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120820
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"We gotta find a way to get high!" "Shh! My parents will hear you Tommy! Their bed is right above us." …
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120845
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His daddy died in his sleep. Went to bed one might and never got up.
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12081610
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He trembled as she splayed open his palm...
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120801
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Dear Butterfly, Are you there ? Wherever there is ? Are you there, crossing your feet on top of each other, sipping your coffee while observing the sky from behind those cat-eye glasses of yours ? 3 days, 8 months and 11 years. That's exactly how long since the last time…
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120894
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Later, when she said she'd had miscarriages, I should have put it all together.
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1208117
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When Uncle Bob got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips.
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120862
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It was only two days before Christmas. Jonathan remembered his mother crying.
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120885
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the emergence of the Beatles and the Vietnam War
sad human electricity
no buzz of any wheel
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120830
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I somehow ended up with my father's second wife's wedding ring. Although it could actually be his third wife's wedding ring.
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120875
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You did it, like, "Oh, there's a train wreck... I can't look away from the tall, leggy brunette with salon styled hair." And we both know it was certainly Armageddon whenever a woman, any woman, with large breasts which encountered a low cut top.
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120800
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Blast! crashed through
Shelter of car
Violence! of blow!
On window glass
It winced! on
Four wheels
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12081510
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I didn't hear your last words or see your lasteyes. I didn't reach you in time, so I sat by your corpse,silently saying goodbye. I am in that process,not sour, not sweet, that yoked speaking which can't(because the heart won't let it) utter its whisperedlast word, but…
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120852
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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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12081311
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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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120864
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He injected her with a sedative to keep her still. He projected himself into her narcotic dream, a small bar with tango playing from a jukebox. They were dancing.
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12081110
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Almost every weekend I'd ask Henry to go out with me and Marge, telling him we could double and, hey, maybe he could bring Ellen, who he dated a while back, who still asked about him. I'd suggest such things as going to a movie or out for a few drinks to reminisce about our…
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12081510
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Ever had the occasion to wake up look at your watch and see it's five-thirty in the morning — after sleeping on the couch all night? Ever then gone to take a leak, trudged down the hall, cracked your bedroom door to check on your wife and found a portly, balding man…
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120762
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INSTRUCTIONS: To all students, please address your index card: "To the Finder of this Balloon." Beneath that, write something that will encourage the finder to email you back. Then tape the index card to your balloon's string.Happy Ballooning! To the Finder…
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120786
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The first inkling that I might be in love with Josie came at our high school senior day outing at, oh, what's its name, state park. I forgot, but it doesn't matter. She smiled, did a little wave and stepped away from her friends, lifted her sundress a little to keep it dry,…
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