2125 9 3
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The year I lick so much windowpane off stamps I have to use Elmer's glue to back the twenty-center for a postcard cash request to my mother, that I am alive note at the end of term, is the year of all the "wine" parties.
"Wine" is what we put down
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21241813
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"You know, there really is a death of the heart."
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212463
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She...learned the ways of men, especially foreign men, who eyed her mother even as they passed around pictures of their children, wallet-bound photographs that included their reluctantly smiling wives.
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212471
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Jacob Obrecht, you are beautiful. Everything inside your head and everything you’ve ever made is beautiful and singing.
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212400
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The Zoomba quivered in anticipation as the front door shut.
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212344
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"a.k.a. I-D-I-O-T" (The Hives).
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212374
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This part of her digital garden is not impressive, slightly sloppy, even haphazard. However, her avatar is an attractive woman with good make-up.
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212394
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You have been my woman’s lover now for
seven years, ever since your two souls met
at La Isla Negra.
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21221210
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I hate math. I hate everything about it.
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212211
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“You’re off till Monday,” the big man told him. “You can thank Mr. Big Mouth and company for that. Death detail gets two days off.”
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21221510
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"The cops are just doing what they're being paid to do."
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21221310
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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212200
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“Stay there Alysia!” Brie said from behind as she ran toward them. The Sentinel used Alysia’s back as a step and launched herself into the air with Legacy over her head.
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21211211
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pressing my hands into the voice in the bed,
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212120
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The specialist had kept what he'd taken out of Sue May. I made an appointment with him and was shown it floating in a jar of clean unguent.
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21212210
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She feels ugly but ready for anything.
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212078
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for a handful of weeks/ my father took me to/ the college of art and design/ downtown/ where i took drawing lessons./
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2120135
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“The price of everything's gone up,” I say. “But I don't have to buy you chocolate if it's costing too much.” She says nothing and bends her head again, gnarled hands slowly breaking a family-sized chocolate block into pieces.
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212085
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Albert Walks When Albert walks he is astonished. Ripe fruit falls to the ground at his feet, offering itself. The earth's tremor rumbles, celebratory, through his mended shoes and up his shins. The birds darting through the sky above …
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21192017
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My glasses fog up every time I go to collect her from the pool. I'll never get used to glasses. When my sight got suddenly worse the day she was born, I didn't tell anyone. As she turned from baby to child, my love for her grew, and my world got smaller,
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211910
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It's possible I was having an acid flashback or some kind of semi-conscious when I opened the door of #3.
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211920
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"James, can you take a peek at problem://7ac5e46f today?"
"It's just another big dumb object. Seems low priority."
"Escalated by the directorate."
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211963
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“Life cannot continue at a breakneck pace, because it is breaking too many necks,” the Health Czar told the President.
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21182422
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But I came back around, after Robert Kennedy got shot, with one hand up your skirt and the other on the gear shift...
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211841
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His body echoed in the mirror/
cracked into distant images
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21181710
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He kissed her tits and thought of art
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21183211
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Jane watched her mother remove her wedding ring with butter.
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211700
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When the scrapbook came out this time, I noticed a photo I hadn't seen before, the Baroness with her arm around the waist of Princess Diana. A lavish display of blooms towered behind them.
"Did you know her?" the florist asked.
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211751
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"From up here the city lights burn like a thousand miles of fire," he croaked, his voice scratchy from sobbing. In pinpoints of illumination he imagined his wife - *former* wife - Calli in that Mustang convertible he'd gotten her for a birthday surprise
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2117183
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Male genitals were usually portrayed diminutively in classical art. After forty minutes in a drafty room without cloths on, I was beginning to understand why.
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