2107 5 0
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Please direct your attention to the flight attendants as they demonstrate the safety features of this aircraft.
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2107 9 6
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Got me a 50 pound bat ray.
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2107 16 5
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Her eyes stared wide with panic, her teeth chattered intermittently with impressive intensity, and with her ineffectual stabs at the air she completed the portrait of distracted mania.
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2107 9 4
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And I watched,
from her warm bed,
the curtains dancing
in the window
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2107 7 4
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Start with a long look down the alley, a small hoodied figure turning in.
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2107 8 2
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Jerry tries to be funny saying, I think Charlie Brown should kick Lucy in the head when she pulls the ball away; either that or they start making out. Ewww, but they're both eight years old, Sandra says biting her lip, tying off her smile. Jerry won't focus on her…
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2107 2 1
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flash read. have fun *cheers*
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2107 3 2
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This is what my summer has come to: me, out of a job, aimlessly driving around the city looking for places to write, places to read, places to occupy my time.
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2106 7 3
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see this:/ ink-stained paper/ littering miles
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2106 15 16
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You should be calling 911
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2106 2 2
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one numberless character, an army of rants marching one by one, sand by sand, we move mountains this way…
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2106 14 5
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She asks if I would like to join them.
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2106 11 9
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strumming on the pipe/blowing on the lute's body/drumming on the horn.
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2105 2 2
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The mother was happy, though. She was happy because she could make him some soup and then she could feed it to him in bed.
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2105 1 0
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“What I really want to know is, why is a straight guy called Caspar opening a lesbian leather bar in Berlin anyway?” Shona asked. “Schöneberg must really be going to the dogs.”
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2105 13 11
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You'll be gone. I'll be gone. I'd hate to think how it was all for nothing, that all we did was stumble into a pretty big hole of our own making. The best place for a broken heart after all is in your own sweet chest. No one else…
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2105 18 5
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2105 14 8
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I like the smoke going in
but I like it even more
when it's coming out
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2105 2 1
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... red lipstick shiny in the bar's light, raven-colored hair spiky and toussled. Jen opened her mouth to say something, stickiness of her cherry Chapstick separating with her lips ... and the girl leaned in and started kissing her.
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2104 0 0
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Soft voices in private, in the street,
city noise violence disappears
she blinks her eyelids
and I can hear the lashes
intertwine and pull clear.
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2104 2 1
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“Hear that?” asks my wife Amy. Books in hand, we relax on our flagstone patio. A shaft of late-day sun borrows through the maples' leafy canopy and deposits a dazzling, sunlit pool on Amy's lap. …
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2104 0 0
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A dark-haired, handsome man adjusted the headset he was wearing, leaned toward a microphone, and eyed his host, a curly-haired man with a toothy grin, who sat up straight as he received a cue from his producer.
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2104 11 11
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It’s like faith. My battle buddy is out there, I know it, but I can’t see him, nor can I hear him. I just know he’s there, trusting he’ll do what he’s supposed to do, and he’s trusting in me.
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2104 0 0
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You would never see me the same again. You'd always be peaking at me from behind your mother's apron.
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2103 6 3
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At night, instead of sleep, there were new and secret pleasures. Half-awake lessons in dexterity, in the limber material of human life.
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2103 2 2
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Patrick Savage, who has died aged 29, was a poker player fast on his way to becoming a cult figure in the music scene.
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2103 21 8
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I am standing in my neighbor’s back yard in my underwear, and my trash can is clean.
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2103 11 6
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2103 7 6
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Butch the Labradoodle sets some necessary boundaries.
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2102 5 3
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Somehow I always had to sit behind him. I remember because he had a constellation of skin tags on his neck. I thought about drawing stars on him; I thought about creating a new galaxy I would rule. I should have been learning math instead. I still can’t
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