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The first and easiest reason was that he never hit me. Well, if he never hit me, then how could it possibly be abuse? Never mind the threats to stab me in the neck. He was only angry. He really didn't mean that. Never mind he restrained me, or cornered me
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156000
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Won't speak a word against 'em. Car trunk stunk like bad chicken long after, but I won't speak a word against 'em.
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156067
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The currents of events/
strip the molecules from cartilage,//
reverse polarity of ventricles—
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He knows I talk to angels, what he would call angels. I don’t talk to him.
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Sheep are very philosophical, I hear. Stop this hopeless dreaming.
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155932
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I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
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155933
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For me, it was that kind of moment. I got to come back. I had been here before and now, well now, I could come back. I had a chance to do it all again, bigger, better and well, just better. I hoped I could remember all that I learned the first time.
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155964
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When I look at the picture on my refrigerator, I always think the same thing: "Hitler was a baby once too, look how well he turned out."
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15591911
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155973
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the sun is quiet like the mountains,
the birds except for their wings
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155922
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I do not know the species of birds here. /
The two I see playing on the balcony at night /
I can never call back.
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155900
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We trade broken phrases of English, Arabic...
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155966
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I feel his hand on my face, feel it brush past my lips, and I taste my sister's blood.
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“Just how many different animals try to hide their nakedness?” “Only one. And that'd be us, idiot.”, Twinkle responded. “Then, why don't we mind sometimes showing our bodies?”, she then asked. Twinkle could see it was going to be another…
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155954
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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Naomi hadn't expected them to come in such a big box. When the UPS man tried to hand it to her, she told him there must be some mistake, but then he pointed to her name¾NAOMI BROWN¾right there on the top. When she finally got off all that tape, she had another…
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155953
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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.
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155964
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I woke up to the humming
of an empty space in the shape of a sweatshirt,
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155931
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I want to read a story that ends unhappily ever after: one where the bad guy wins and no one gets the girl.
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155910
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[WARNING: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 'R XMAS!]
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"That zit on your forehead just won't go away, will it, sweetie?" she adds as she brushes her daughter's bangs downward.
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155900
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Osama couldn’t see any reason he shouldn’t retire. No way he could top BP Oil in the Gulf or Pacific Gas & Electric in San Bruno.
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The washing machine at home was broken. It was an old leaky Maytag. A discouraging mess—twisted panties, sky-blue jeans, and an old lover or two or three floating downstream (the reverse of spawning salmon). Each man was slightly drowned,…
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Later, my daughter told me that she hadn't been scared because as I lay on the ground unconscious I continued to laugh, gradually relaxing into a big smile as I came around a minute later.
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155820
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The story of a second, a stone, and an android -- all curiously interrelated and all, coincidentally, named Gretchen
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155831
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"Look Emily, I’m charging your solar powered calculator and helping you relieve your dependence on foreign oil."
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155800
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The streets were filled with animals of the forest. All in a panic trying to find a direction. Mixed among them were members of various Clans that lived in the forest.
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