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living in the cross current lawn-care worlds don't give a whit about the so called deeper things. They don't have to scrape and you can't make them go to the river to see a sunset. They've got all their bonafide luxuries in a smart little…
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89751
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Molly stared at the woman behind the desk with a headset attached to her head, and sighed.
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89700
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She had no eyes that I could see. Just a pair of lips; they looked soft
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89760
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It’s hard to lose. Harder than you think. I guess the ultimate question is: If I had to give up one thing, my dog, or hazelnut gelato, which would it be? I’ll tell you, between those two, it would have been easy to choose. But losing you, that was a who
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89711
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On 3rd when you looked at your 389th happy New Year greeting, you autotyped “same to you”. No one on whatsapp knew.
At week 17 of IVF therapy when you and your new bride could do no more; doctor Mehdi said neither could he.
At 5 minutes left, you mi
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89600
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We stared wistfully at the clouds; wishfully at the stars.
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89600
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I have sat aside and entertained the coveted feelings of what was not in my hands. Only briefly, a moment shared of hidden secrets and joy. But of and between us, I cannot say that this moment is a considerable spur-still I desire…
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89644
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I was at the bend in the road
thinking of Robert Frost
but there was no fork,
there was no yellow wood,
there wasn’t even a horse
to ask me why or what if
There was no decision to be made
just a thousand tourists from Prague
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89651
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I remember Freddie K bringing these fat Thai joints back with him from Viet Nam, and just one of those things would get us all so stoned at parties in Jolene’s upstairs apartment that we felt as if we could float down the long flight of stairs like we w
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89651
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It had all been for the children, hadn´t it?
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89630
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There was no logic to the thing;
he’d left to drive his girl around.
She had lived and he had died.
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89611
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We’ve been married for 24.1667 years now and–well–my wife was starting to remind me of a public building. The Registry of Motor Vehicles, to be precise.
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89652
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Any God we could respect/
would listen, kind, to prayers,/
compassionate but resolute –
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89687
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a fat crow rapturously caws over its good fortune...
not a morsel left on the street,
not even a bloodstain
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89600
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The hospital was a welcome relief. A short ambulance ride, a nice man holding your arm in a make-shift tourniquet, the red sirens flashing and screeching. Then you were…
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89674
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Life is meagre with me; I am unsatisfied and left always begging for __________.
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89511
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Deep in Stationcity they began to drum.
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89511
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He is the kind of boy that is so handsome / you already expect there is something wrong with him
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89551
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I awoke sweating like a Mormon at an anti-bigamy conference.
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89511
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My dog Alfie and I would get in my van and go out at midnight for a doughnut. Or an éclair. A French cruller, to be exact. Sometimes we would get Blondie's Pizza on Telegraph Avenue near the Berkeley campus, if it got to be too lonely and restless at nigh
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89553
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His spoken words had reavealed nothing, but the far-off look in his eyes had told me good-bye.
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89522
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There is only me and the crooked pavement that leads to your dim tower.
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89500
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They are light, their souls, yours among them. And women who seduce you should understand that, and use their bodies carefully, so that you are unharmed by the night that is filled with them. The beautiful youth who would turn their flower as if you wer
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89530
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer. The rain comes down in sheets.
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89500
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you are in Faulkner’s dream -a lost pilgrim in cheap shoes
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895179
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When I came back home, after coming down with polio, everything had changed for me. I'd been gone for forty-five long days and nights. But it was Halloween, a time very nearly sacred for children in the Midwest, and it brought out the charity of the who
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89510
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Look out for rotten ice. If you fall in, pull yourself out like a seal. Take off all your clothes and get to shelter.
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89500
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Sunday Night She wasn't hungry, hadn't eaten for days, wouldn't even touch the food I took time off my fuckin' schedule to bring her myself. I walked through puddles of dirt and dog shit, I did. By the time she opened the door after four knocks, I was drenched,…
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