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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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150732
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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
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150763
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". . those incandescent secrets she would
pepper in. The sister who ran away."
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1507135
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There were guitar players, and as happens with talent sometimes, the guitar players were too talented. There could not be places for all of them in a single rock band.
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150620
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The boy grew frightened when his grainy wooden skin began to melt, every fiber humming and softening.
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150600
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One cold winter's day she met what she thought was the love of her life. He had everything going for him but his age. You see the sweet young thing was a lot younger than her. One might say that she had lived many lives before he had been born.
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1506115
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There are no inspirations./
There are only the things I like/
and the much more numerous//
things I do not like.
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150654
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I know this much: right now I’m over a thousand miles from my brother. I’ve been watching the odometers, adding it all up.
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150654
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He did not hear her enter the room...
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150696
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And soon you'll be walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
and walking
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150687
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I always thought I would feel your hand, always, Lay with you as we flew higher together, laugh with You in the little spaces left between certain trees, like tiny blue flowers that only appear suddenly, made secretly Of…
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150600
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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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150621
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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son
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150633
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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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150632
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I separate my thoughts into two / camps
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150675
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I was tired and lonesome when I checked into another insufferable, shop-worn Holiday Inn. It was the only motel around with the internet — dial up only — in that little jerkwater town, Notmuch, Alabama. It was too late for a nap, so I jumped in the shower,…
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150588
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We're killing off the elephants. We're killing off the tigers. We're killing off monarch butterflies. We're wrecking the coral reefs. Big sad gorillas don't feel at home in their own homes. And all instead of learning to live in some…
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150564
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Too often, Calvin's willful head finds its way into his hands.
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1505159
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heart-shaped stones
love, devotion
no way
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150585
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Stroman reached over and stroked the perimeter of Rouge's chin with his thumb. 'I am just joking. You are my soul-mate, you know that?'
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1505129
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How could a leaf be an accident?
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150501
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I was driving by with a dampened eye
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1505168
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Fear the air and fear the fire./
Fear the land and fear the water./
Creation is out to get you, speck,
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150552
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150573
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edge of wolf howls and howls past sunflowers and skeletons
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150500
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When sixth-grade science teacher Pat Farrell assigns an earth-science lab on measuring crystals, the girls collect their materials, read the directions and follow the sequence from beginning to end. The first thing boys do is ask, “Can we eat this?"
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150564
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You borrow words from platforms you could never build
Borrow morals from a party gone sour
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150544
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Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy
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150400
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There were security guards running all over the place. Campus police cars, with lights flashing, at various locations in the distance. Sora gripped her books tight as they saw their dormitory building ahead.
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