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When the snow reached the windowsills I was no longer a virgin.
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—That was harsh, said Jen as the bathroom door slammed behind Melanie. —Mel's my best friend, not yours. She needed to know that shade of blue doesn't go with olive skin. —Viv, you said she looked like a whore. —That's how our friendship…
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Eighteen-layered canvases were prized by both of them, regardless of whose work appeared on top.
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When you return home, one year to the day that you left us, you will wonder if you can do it all over again.
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It felt like he'd just taken his marriage out into the woods, forced it to its knees, and put a bullet through its head. Or they had, together.
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When Ryan isn’t around, those of us who know him lament that he peaked at 17, at Disney World.
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The Cheshire grinning/
moon cups itself to capture/
Venus should she fall.
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This was looking down from what we know as The Grassy Knoll.
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O’Malley imagined the blissful, narcotic innocence of Toby’s world where soft-shell crabs crawled into people’s mouths and hummed a happy tune as they were chewed and swallowed.
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Not everybody sees Father. Not Mom, not Dad, not even my little brother, Andre, and he see lots of things. Me, I need to.
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Her mother dressed her like a little girl would dress a doll.
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"The problem is, sometimes my pigeon wants to fly somewhere new- to the beach or south for winter. Other times, my pigeon wants to steal someone else’s lunch or picnic with a stranger’s leftovers. Often, my pigeon wants a good show and some freedom, to be
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Dear Erin,And people call ME a pussy. Fuck you,The Cunt
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In an early scene in Marvel's 2015 movie Ant-Man, the film's protagonist, Scott Lang, a convicted felon and former burglar, is summoned to his boss Dale's office at Baskin-Robbins."Three years at San Quentin, huh?" says Dale."You found out," Scott replies."Baskin-Robbins…
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Boys of summer in Yonkers played stickball and baseball.
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Columbus Avenue, I’m the tense union of poor city rich city/
gentrification.
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Like gymnastics, shoplifting is a discipline of youth.
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One day a woman, one of several translators at Ellis Island, asks him why he has changed a passenger’s name from Checzowicz to something else.
“The name was too long,” he says. “Ten letters.”
She replies, “But you didn’t change O’Shaughnessy, and it has
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Larry's next book, A Fly in My Ointment, is due out this summer
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- Do you get out much, Professor?
- How so? You mean to lectures?
- No, I mean, you know, say, a walk in the park, or, take in a movie, or, maybe take a chick out to dinner, show her a good time, get a few drink
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A brief commentary on the uselessness of endings.
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my exposed
flu-ridden head
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... a moth,
a kiss. A silence.
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I’ll bring the naproxen sodium so we won’t have any problem grabbing things.
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“He had emerged from slavery, -- not the worst slavery in the world, not a slavery that made all life unbearable, rather a slavery that had here and there something of kindliness, fidelity, and happiness, -- but withal slavery, which, so far a human aspiration…
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As soon as she left, I sat down at the computer. Booted up. Read my e-mail, then looked at pictures of bare-naked ladies.
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It’s about 4:30 when the phone rings. I look at the display and see it’s home.
“Hey,” I say picking up.
“I hate you,” says Jules.
“I hate, you, too,” I say. My co-workers don’t even blink. They’ve heard this before.
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