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Ai did not know what to do, nor say. She did not want Manami to suffer anymore than she already has.
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214133
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I also understand if you don't think that's fair. But consider this: If she doesn't operate according to those rules, then where are we? Isn't that anarchy?
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214101
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“Charlie was right about you, Nan,” she said in a voice of pure defeat. “You are a gentle spirit. And probably too good for people like us.”
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214020
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The Master of Sleep had lived alone for many years, so when his daughters first moved into his house he welcomed them, seemingly glad for their company...
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I stared out the window, the fog creeped up the Avenues like a spectator.
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2140146
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Sasha and I had snorted a table of cocaine and I had her trapped inside my Joy Division bedroom.
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214000
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The Sentinels flew low and through the woods. Carefully navigating their way around the trees, they heard the sound of birds chirping and frogs croaking in the morning.
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214011
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Stretch marks part my heart,
stretch marks part my body.
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2140198
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A discussion at the homeless colony under the expressway overpass crossing the river:
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2140118
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You the macho man
shuffling one woman
out the back entrance
to let another one in the front.
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214021
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It's Halloween again, the season when my mother died.
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213996
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Wish you weren't here,
Moon man in your cargo shorts.
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213985
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On his last day of high school Jackie York woke up to the smell of burning books. He didn't know it was his last day of high school. He did know the smoke coming through his rusty window screen was book smoke.
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213894
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America has given birth to many great poets--Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Muhammad Ali--but why should talented people have all the fun?
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21381814
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I peel off my shorts and tee-shirt, step out of my shoes, and crawl into bed. She wakes up then. "Oh, my goodness," she says.
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2138128
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She’s the worst student in my Modern Film class and we’re alone at a bar.
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21372114
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all paths converge on Africa/
and Eden, and the fall from animal grace
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213700
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For years I watched behind the glass
While merry parties purpled past
But now the world’s a Solemn Mass
And I can only think.
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2137128
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his perfect ivory
voice telling me
i brush too hard.
…as if he cared
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213711
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"John is going to love it when he finds out that it pees," Bobby said. Kelly laughed and dropped a towel on the floor.
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213700
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He said he'd searched in vain for his wife, Mary, before abandoning hope and the ship in one of the last row boats. He was allowed in because of his experience fishing.
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2137107
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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
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213753
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They met on a bus. The bus got lost. He had corn chips. She had a tuna sandwich. They shared. “This is good,” he said. “Did you make this?” …
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2136108
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I am not a gun, but I think I may have pulled a plastic movie trigger in some kind of real world action before, accelerated, pivotal scene, one way or another before, this new frame came into its paranoid view .You see? I am not a plastic water bottle,but I…
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213661
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"I expect 50% of the agreed fee. In cash.” I dropped the envelope at the designated spot and parked up the street.
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213611
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This is the story of my friend, Gil
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213622
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“You wouldn't believe it.” Peter leaned in to whisper. “Don’t let the Kodak moment with the wife and kids fool you. That guy is totally gay.”
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the brand we like best and buy whether it's on sale or not. Surely there is another blue cheese dressing that is sold, possibly in San Francisco and made in a Berkeley basement by hippies who scrape together all of their change twice a year and buy cheese from an ancient…
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21362012
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I drove to you in April / and you loved me all through Illinois
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2135216
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The "Many Worlds" theory, applied.
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