1509 0 0
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Emi watched the Perez sisters show each other support. It brought back memories of Mayumi giving her support, even fighting for her.
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1509 5 5
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1509 6 1
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The old man is dead,
body propped in its cart
like the dead El Cid
strapped on his horse by Jimena
to save Valencia,
and yet...
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1508 5 5
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"Give it to me I said, you dip! Fork it over!"
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1508 14 13
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Magdalena White Herrington praised the lucky stars who’d sent her the Klonakilty ghosts.
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1508 8 5
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Elaine and Francesco exited the taxi in front of Elaine Aster Gallery.
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1508 8 5
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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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1508 4 2
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Lorelei was bombarded constantly with it. She began to hate the city...
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1508 0 0
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In our first conversation, she tells me love is a dragon: she has come across it’s destruction, hears of it’s size, mythology, of it’s immorality. I sip my hot cocoa (God, I pray she thinks it is coffee)...
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1508 6 4
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i dream a thousand interconnected pictures. i dream the future. i dream we are together. i dream i love you. i dream i am forgiven. i dream you care. i dream nice dreams. i go to the bank. i deposit my check. i pay the rent. i pet the cat. i…
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1508 5 4
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My wife says you can tell the crooks from the cops from the cowboys at the taco truck across the street.
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1508 1 1
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1508 13 11
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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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1508 4 1
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You gather their faces in the palms of your hands and their purple eyes blink, blink, unseeing.
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1508 16 10
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Lavender, a Liberal Betty, batty from hormones, in a fanciful fit, named her daughter Lavender. Husband Don winced. Brothers Donald, John, Billy, and Tom were puzzled and pleased by this sister, this girl, who was a little bit like them, yet not like them at…
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1508 5 5
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I think the Air Force Colonel must have known, from the flushed looks on our faces, that I had just fucked his daughter in a roadside patch of ragweed on the way to their house somewhere outside Danville. I remember looking back and forth between him and
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1508 2 1
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My father had a terrific argument with his wife, my stepmother, a flaming harridan with a voice like hydrochloric acid, and insisted on driving me back home to California.
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1507 11 9
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All else is unmoved/
and relentless in its indifference.
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1507 3 4
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She had a face like a frog: wide mouth, prominent eyes – and when she touched him, her fingers felt clammy on his skin.
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1507 0 0
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Everyone gathered around Karin with the Mana Spirits. She wrapped her arms around her waist, staring at the ground.
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1507 7 4
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My work is not that sexy and glamorous kind of time travel that you see in the movies with Deloreans and phone booths.
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1507 2 2
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The first days of October are ordinary in the way that milk just hours away from spoiling is ordinary milk. You can baptise your cornflakes with it, but part of you knows the whole thing is just shy of almost right.
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1507 7 1
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I have the right to remain silent. If I waive that right everything I say can and will be used against me like a razor dragged across my neck.
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1507 5 5
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I asked her how she came to be at our little party. We all knew she was an intern. What would she want with the likes of us, the orderlies and techs and strays? She just held up Ed's flyer and said, "Why not?" But she didn't look happy. We fired up and someone said, "Let's…
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1507 1 1
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Everybody knew the McDonald’s at the Waterfront was selling theraflu stamp bags, and I guess I’d heard how bad it was for you—they’d had reports of dumbasses ODing on channel 2, 4, and 11—but it was a lot stronger than regular heroin and a lot cheaper...
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1507 10 5
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It's been twenty years since you left. I should call it a day.Even the Obeah woman said as much. But I don't listen. Instead I sit with old and proper ethnic widows in black, waiting for your return. One of them translates my story for the…
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1507 10 8
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“I have a theory,” she said on their first date, which was at an Indian restaurant where the music was a lovely singsong but the chef seemed enraged as he clapped a ball of dough between his hands, then threw it into the flames. And her date, whom she…
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1507 9 7
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I remember the living room heater
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1507 3 5
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at nightthe mannequins leave their glass prisons and hunt owls in the forest***sometimes they dance a slo-mo tarantella in a clearingbone-white …
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1507 10 8
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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