1430 3 3
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143041
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You can't always be everything
you were expected to be
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1430165
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As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .
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143010
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It is your music that makes me want to crack open my ribcage and rip out my heart as it still beats, to cauterize my carotids, and shove the mechanical insides of a clock into my thoracic cavity.
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143033
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He thought of his field trip from the previous year, of Prague’s museums, statues, squares, architecture, restaurants, and various modes of transport. The town offered none of these and surely no cinema, no crowds of people, not even an old church.
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1430139
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I was convinced that enemy bombers were on the way.
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14301410
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Sitting together at Starbucks, we composed a long love letter which we've been mailing back and forth to each other, signing our name upon each receipt and returning it for the last nine months and it has grown to eighty seven pages, barely fitting in a shoe box.
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143041
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The most unoriginal, trite and hackneyed story ever written!
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143000
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I felt the most afraid I’ve ever felt in my life, like all the unknowns in the universe were rushing through me at once.
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143000
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“She’s very sick. She’s dying,” and he smoothed my hair along my neck.
“It’s leukemia. A very rare type,” his hand reached my shoulder and stopped there.
“She only has a few months.”
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143022
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Happy Birthday to me.
It takes just a second on waking to remember,
It's June but it feels like December.
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142921
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Just an abnormal visit to the post office.
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142941
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Dear Friend:
As a visitor to Wonderland in the past, you are truly among our most treasured friends. It is the enthusiasm for whimsy such as yours that spurs us to continue to provide perplexing chaos for which we are so widely esteemed, the better to
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1429129
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I smelled the bleach of burst anemones
the sweet arousal of the Dungeness crabs
the seaweed of sour twigs and feces
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142921
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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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142900
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A dark and mysterious account of an ancient traveler seeking arcane literature, and the miserable results to him after he receives what he sought.
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1429109
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He looks outside, sees everything disappearing like crumbing cookies into what appears to be a giant mouth.
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142943
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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142932
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"Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean anyone is to blame - It just is."
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142921
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Life to her had come to resemble one of those mazes you find in a puzzle book, inscrutable except by those with exceptional IQs. Mary would run her pencil down one path in search of the passage that might penetrate to the exit, then another, but the paths
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142900
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Should probably be faster at the cash register
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142953
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142934
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If she does not get to him in time, / all is lost.
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142951
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It starts with a letter, down the back of the couch, ending, ‘love, always.' I read only the kisses aimed at me - a firing line running off the page. How long has that letter hidden there? It secreted itself in a corner of the house…
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142933
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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142910
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Bree was mean as a bag of snakes and had done laid out most of the eligible bachelors in Culloden County at one time or another to the tune that at this point no man who’d heard of her wanted much truck with her.
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142943
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142820
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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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1428128
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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