2045 22 10
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The Count was used to boredom but he had reached the point where he was even bored with boredom.
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2044 6 3
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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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2044 7 3
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She didn't care for the taste. Slightly salty and sweet at the same time, but she let him come in her mouth just the same
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2044 3 1
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She threw the wine glass on the floor.
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2043 21 17
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There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.
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2043 24 22
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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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2043 18 12
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Go to your room. Children are meant to be seen not heard.
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2041 9 4
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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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2041 5 3
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“I take him to see all those sexy movies,” she said, “because it puts the passion back in him. I love what he does to me when we get back home after those movies.”
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2041 19 8
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The one he liked best was a middle aged woman who didn't wear underwear. She had a terrific figure.
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2039 5 2
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It’s true that there are many accounts of fascinating Amish dinnerware, but none is more interesting than Samuel Stoltzfus’ Divining Plate, forged in 1881.
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2039 2 0
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The snake glides unhurriedly through the garden one warm July afternoon looking for a schmoose. Or barring such pleasant daytime passage, a shady snoozing spot. He twines himself about the gravid apple tree’s trunk caduceus-like, slithering his handsom
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2038 12 7
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I draw your location on my thighs. It takes up both legs; it’s far. I think about showing you but something comes up. The phone rings. I tell her I don’t want to donate to the PBA.
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2037 0 0
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But the urge now is to unknow the urgency with which I forgot my self-description.
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2036 0 0
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Before Ciel could ask further, Sora pulled her arm. Ciel turned to the golem summoner and saw the look on her eyes, a silent warning not to push Azure.
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2036 1 0
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I sighed and looked deep into his eyes. “There is nothing more powerful than denial.”
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2036 15 10
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...skinny love, skinned and thinned weak broth love...
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2035 16 12
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In all my marriage stories, I am both victim and hero.
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2035 7 3
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out here the land/speaks in Quaker silence
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2034 15 12
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This is the best kind of crime scene.
Spattered like gore from gunshots,
I'm left covered in trace evidence.
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2034 6 1
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The imitator’s segue to his sad life story was, “But what isn’t funny…”
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2034 0 0
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The warmth flowed around her, and her heart beat at a calming pace. She felt as though the heat bathed her like water and felt her body cleansing within it.
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2034 20 17
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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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2034 8 6
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There was man from antiquity that sat next to me. His belief in the healing qualities of Aloe Vera so pronounced, that the house brimmed with such. He had no use for modernity in any of its forms but was fond of supermarkets. When in one he was overwhelmed with an…
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2033 16 14
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ornery women / in tall hats, suspender dads, kids deformed with / ribbons
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2033 5 3
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For the woman with no arms, life is a constant dexterity demonstration
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2033 15 9
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She's always sitting in a soft chair watching television with little stars dotting her elbows and lightning bolts on her wrists.
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2032 0 0
|
One of the runners was collecting bags of dead animals to bring back to the van. Nicholas looked inside one of the bags, but all he saw was a stringy mess of fur and tissue.
The runner grabbed the bag from Nicholas. He shrugged and said "hammers.
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2032 5 4
|
The daughter's trip, a travail, cross country; the painkillers were not the finisher mom needed—and the white sheets of the institution were too thin to provide her any comfort as she dreamt of swimming; a backstroke suspended over a waterless pool.Her father…
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2032 4 4
|
“I changed religions for that baby.”
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