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i hope that day comes sooner rather than later.
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There was nothing on the lake but a / faint sailboat and a shadowy gull.
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Over the last 30 days we have seen a radical decrease in our revenue stream. Our Q3 earnings fell dramatically short of what we had projected, and as a result the leadership team has had to look at some difficult cost-reducing measures.
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We are nerds. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us bitch.
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—Christ all mighty, said Ben to himself as he watched Isabella and Leona enter the bank. Those are some extraordinary examples of female flesh.
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When New Guinea's president was a student at UCLA he received an A- in organic chemistry after watching a Joan Rivers Informercial. Each year he tries to re-create the magic of that moment.
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But the things I do know are the ways we've changed since we'd fallen into each other.
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The world follows me everywhere. I can’t get rid of it. I’m being stalked by a planet.
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Can you remember now? How we could each disappear completely, connected despite fault lines. . . .
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It looks like Arizona, like a desert with secrets. The bed unfolded and she was being good today. She would be good, no matter how he moved and laughed she would be a lady. The names of the flowers escaped her, flowers she'd always known. All she saw were waterlilies.…
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Keep it quick (and they usually did) and it was simple.
Quick as the walk between their houses, from number 27 to number 33 (odd numbers only), and simple as the alibi.
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Some guys get by on hope or hate or both. Some lose their minds, if they brought them in the first place.
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“Eat up, little brother” Jack called out from his end of the table. “The food will make your blood dance. It will be eager to mix with Helen’s.”
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"The tundra was as cold and barren as Mother Theresa's womb."
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The manic,/
looking on, finds and polishes//
the sharp green shard and bottle cap
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Once I get through this I'm going to start: daily yoga stretches; walking the dog all the way to the waterfall every morning; tossing out, unread, Saturday's ads so I don't think about going into Walmart to buy Stack-A-Shelves (assembly required). Hey, even…
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Every year I make New Year's resolutions and every year I break them. So this year, I'm trying something different -- resolutions for other people. Hey world -- here are the changes I'd like to see YOU make in 2014(1) Cell phone owners: No more blathering on your cell in…
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I kept my seat. Passengers packed in the aisle weren't moving and until they were, neither was I.
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The squirrels love the sun
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This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.
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An hour later, we're no closer to the tunnel. In our rental car, we're just two in a school of a thousand fish skimming the edge of the island. Go with the flow, we keep saying to each other. We're just going with the flow. …
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You think you are a perpetual motion machine, free of thermodynamic law. I’m telling you, you’re wrong.
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I had to go to
the lost and fondue.
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Strauss does all the stirring at the start./
The rest is all murk and meander
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Michael lay on his back and counted his breaths, measuring their depth of inhalation and release.
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Lips touch briefly at first
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Some friends of mine took him for a ride out to Broad Channel, you know that enclave of crazies that live in houses on stilts on the island in Jamaica Bay on Cross Bay Boulevard. He might find that when the tide comes in, the water might be a little deepe
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A young officer approached the lawn where Shane was picketing with friends. All from middle-class neighborhoods, none considered "troubled," they were beginning to learn that obeying the law wasn't always enough . . .
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They are sea scallops wrapped in bacon, grilled with butter and lemon and plated in heavy seasoned cream sauce and served with apricot chutney.
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