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a few Hershey's Kisses tucked in with the note
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114120
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Still worried. I could use some more hope in my oatmeal.
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114100
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This is hell amongst the bloom and grow.
Spring's warmth is cruel,
a feast of unrestraint...
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114100
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It seems like that is all I really knowThe narrow confines of my existenceThe sun rises and falls somewhere,And all living things, move, work struggle and fightCarrying a bucket of water, while the sunBangs the day's rhythm on my armsThere's a war going on, all the…
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114120
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The president snapped awake at three AM. He realized he was a serial killer. Highly trained and equipped killers on his orders were summarily murdering thousands of raggedly dressed people in the name of Democracy.
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114100
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These were strange realizations, and each built upon the one before until I was completely mystified and unsettled in my life.
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114100
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Dog winged the monkey's gerdonderplonk just past ceremony. Winkle-wizzened water garglers awoke wanderjanked while apple-gated confederates slept on. Rusty pipe smack-down cancelled water lily gumbo's two o'clock and Patsy sang Crazy for the millionth time.…
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114050
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They were all celebrating something, but she couldn’t see what it was.
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114052
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We head home, skirting along the coast,
humble before catapulting waves;
the lighthouse near invisible
if not for a single band of red.
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114011
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We are / packed in a speck of dust / adrift across the universe, / revolving an ember.
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114000
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“That's Governor Gauda to you, punk!” This is the line from my speech “Killing Dennis Gauda.” The speech lost the Tall Tales competition at the division level, but I was unfortunate to have a chance to do this speech for Dennis Gauda …
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114041
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“So–you can get a stimulus check even if you’re dead?” I asked.
“hell man–in chicago you can vote if you’re dead. i’ve tried to stay active politically.”
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114000
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It was the same table they met and fell in love.
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114021
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“Are you comparing the communists with Hitler?”
“Are you telling me there is no comparison?"
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114033
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Father, trouble me memory;laconic, idle, some glint on the dark. Recall us to me: what did we have, or what did we lose? Like some late affection, open me again, laugh it out of us. It is not loss I'm looking toput back together, papered over…
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113996
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113900
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Randall had created Raoul to enjoy the freedom of being another person, but this became his second life crisis.
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11391816
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My job was take the falls, act the dope, finish at the wrong end of the slap stick for the blow off. I was Auguste, the fool; I drove the clown car.
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113911
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no matter how many drunks I spoke to, no matter how many strangers I tried my new theories on, no matter how many of my, currently distant friends I out-witted and educated with my revelatory nuggets of wisdom, I still see no sign of impact on the evening
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113940
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There's a surprise for you!Why did she think I would have been pregnant? I hadn't seen her for ages, neither people she knew, so it wasn't my weight ...She opened the door, a sigh of relief on her face, thank God she thought ... She isn't.The surprise was we came to visit,…
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113900
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no one told him there was a place where heroes died, but he should have known it was in love
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113940
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The boy had decided he needed to sell his music equipment—the p.a. system, his amp, his compact organ. His band had broken up and wasn’t going to get back together. He was leaving town at the end of the summer, to where exactly he didn’t know yet.
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113800
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One morning she was out on her walk and happened to come near the creek. Amazed as she was by the landscape, she was unprepared for the creek to look dark. The sky was blue, the sun was shining, the trees budding and yet below, in the water, it seemed dar
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113811
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Deep in Stationcity they began to drum.
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113800
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I’ve really had it up to here
with people who say “awesome”
of things that don’t inspire awe.
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113862
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among and begin / bouquets
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113800
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This is what you have to do to keep the unruly parts of your brain from open revolt.
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113800
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My usual angel fell from the ceiling and onto the couch.
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113800
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We entertained each other and stuck our fingers in each others’ cakes and pies and pulled them out licking them while looking at each other. I was light with youth in a white summer dress, swinging my shoe as it dangled off the tip of my toes, rubbing m
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113821
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“You’re just like me,” she said, as dawn was breaking. “You like sex.”
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