1338 9 8
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6. to register for the draft
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133865
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His shirts he hangs on the back of the chair, one on top the other so they won't wrinkle.
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133841
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You can't always be everything
you were expected to be
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1338159
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They were discussing reincarnation,
what animals they would come back as.
"I'd be a vole," Cranshaw said. Is a vole
even an animal? Connie asked.
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1338139
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133853
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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133890
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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
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133823
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say no / to me / and devastate me / and I will take it / as god's will / to drown me / in a vat / of my own / entrails
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133831
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Though his heart aches
his melody seems to flow
It creeps into the dreams
of all in slumber in the valley below
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133800
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“Well in opposite heaven every time you make scrambled eggs the shells break into a million pieces, then you spend eternity picking them out of the yolk.”
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133865
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I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier
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133740
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No one commented on her altered appearance, although Will in Accounts said he quite liked her hair like that, so she assumed that no one could see the snakes. But she still felt self-conscious, exposed. She had to remember not to talk to them when she was…
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133700
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Two women are escorted to the desert, where they are shackled to the ground. Who are they, what have the done, and will they survive?
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133731
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There is a the reason for the theft of people and the melting of gold
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133700
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“We are NOT starving!” I stated emphatically. “What ever gave you the idea that you are starving? Honestly, Annie, you are so melodramatic. You have food in front of you right now, don’t you?’ I said pointing to her plate of potatoes and so
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133752
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We talk of his time in the jungle.
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133798
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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133732
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Artie Shaw gave Ava Gardner a reading list in preparation for their honeymoon that included The Brothers Karamazov, The Origin of the Species, Das Kapital and The Magic Mountain.
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1337117
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1337105
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If I could say only one thing more to Tony who died a month ago, there is one thing I could find to say
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133711
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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th
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133632
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I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
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133632
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I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
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133631
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Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.
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133644
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I gave you two daughters.
I gave you four grandchildren.
I'm done.
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133662
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Your brother is not really blind.
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133611
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1. On the morning of her eighteenth birthday, Eve woke to find herself transformed into a gigantic chess piece made of zeros and ones.2. Eve gazed so long at her smartphone that she found herself falling into it.3. She fell for a time that may have been short or long or…
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133655
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Another year has flown, crashed to the ground, and convulsed to its death in a final match with the meaninglessness of existence. Decided to try my luck as a Walmart greeter this year but the apomorphine treatment made me break out in hives and I reacted…
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133644
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The last chick in the nest
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133621
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The man could be a total brute, though the truth was he had the softest of hearts too. A real gentle giant. But get him going on a drunk jag with too much ouzo in his system, and look out.
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