1439 10 9
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We’re lucky it/
was chunky spew,
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143966
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The ability to "see the ball" is a gift.
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143921
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She also castrated her cat. All by herself...with her Swiss Army Knife. And not with the blade either.
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143986
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Strength & Luck By Nonnie Augustine There was no food in Ireland for young Patrick Kennedy who'd known nothing of blooming. So he crossed the wintry sea in a bucking, groaning boat to Liverpool. Once the damn ship docked in…
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143921
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Big Girl always stops on Talbert Hill.
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143965
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Yes, I can imagine it now/
how we could each disappear completely/
connected only through memory's fault lines/
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143997
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Just drank / The last of the eggnog
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143932
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She turned him down again. Said it was her insomnia. She was so tired, she said, she had to work in the morning, and why couldn't he understand that? She rolled over facing away from him. He sat up in bed, thinking. When was the last time? Three months ago? Four? He…
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143975
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... the CBO issued a concise and brilliant report demonstrating that the most cost-effective and permanent solution to the multiple problems presented by persistent poverty in the United States was the elimination of all those with prorated household or i
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143953
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He can become anyone. If he wants. He'd rather not but it's not his choice.
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143900
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“You. There,” said the fellow, pointing his gun like a dead finger. “You believe that water saves the soul, don’t you?” Thomas looked to the other boys for an answer, but they didn’t know any more than he did.
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1439138
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Treasure that first love. And that first heartbreak. Don’t let it be the last thing.
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143921
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This is how she does it:
Forward………… ...Reverse..........…….....Forward..........……...Reverse
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1438148
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The alphabets will disappear.
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143821
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We all thought, Birds! We all thought, Nests inside the chimney!
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143842
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Anatoly Gringovitch took a swallow of beer, thoughtfully put the cap on his Ferrari da Varese custom fountain pen, and launched into his story:
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143833
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I know who done it. Them goddamn taters. I walked around the yard and started picking up pieces of the camaro, wondering if, from above, they’d laid the parts out into some kinda cult symbols or something.
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143800
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Licking my wounds.
That's what my mother calls it. I'm not really sure what that means or if it's true. Sure, losing your boyfriend, apartment and job in a matter of months can drive someone to do something impulsive. Something crazy. But I've always b
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143800
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I hauled out my Norton Anthology and threw caution to the wind.
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143854
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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”
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143893
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This is me pitching a recently completed screenplay to a film producer at lunch the other day:
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143845
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Don’t break things, I add. And he looks at me like I’ve broken everything else.
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143853
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At times we rarely desire to be where we are at home quite as much as we desire to be where we are no longer.
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143866
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He thought she should have come with an owner’s manual
So he would know how to operate the equipment
It was definitely more than he bargained for
Or knew how to handle
She was too hot
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14381610
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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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143861
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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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143863
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I feel so glamorous when I talk to Andy on the phone
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143865
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I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.
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143832
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The voice on the other end mumbles, not forming words, but I understand: I am to be the starting third baseman for the Detroit Tigers.
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143711
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No chance for Hallo, we sank into an unlit station doorway and he fumbled through my shorts.
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