2142 7 6
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Butch the Labradoodle sets some necessary boundaries.
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2142156
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with images overflowing with delicate thought scenes with nightmarish wet dreams
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You were given blame for action as experience by cause and effect now. If you take apart blame and even forgiveness is too rigid. She thinks of that purpose as to give men sexual destiny.
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214197
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the observation, at the end, more/
important than the being there—
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214073
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His wings were down when he got into the truck. It was a used UPS truck we’d bought from someone in Berkeley, and we painted out the letter “S,” so that it just read “UP.”
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He had her pinned to the back seat, expressing his love. Do you love me? she whispered in his ear. Do you, do you, Jimmy Dale, do you love me? His only response…
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214094
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And I watched,
from her warm bed,
the curtains dancing
in the window
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her heart just nodded knowingly
....yes, dear
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213999
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What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
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213921
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Standing hard at the windowCold clouds move, slowBlue horizon in the distance—It's just a slice of blue.All this beautyI miss it in the bitterness.I'm consumed by the missingThe emptinessThe unfairnessAlways some unfairness cropping upand capturing joy.Glancing high…
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The waters rose / on the earth
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2139109
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Sometimes, they beat their masters home...
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21391111
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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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Only strong personalities can endure such size, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
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Somewhere along tomorrow, I will forget I have the right to do this.
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2139128
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On the usefulness of hands.
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2138125
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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
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213810
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For Hector it was animals. Rats, dogs, fish, and quite often horses – sometimes even lions. But for Achilles, it was always dead bodies.
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213886
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“Mules don’t like to dive, Esther.”
“I said maybe, Hugh. Maybe.”
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21381918
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He was a tenth grade / messiah, famous for acts of attrition.
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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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213876
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His eyes drift over the body of every
woman who enters Starbucks, even though
he’s old enough to be their father or grandfather,
still his eyes are aware of every shape passing by,
refusing to let go, and die.
Maybe they’re speaking Polish or
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I can't rememberI woke up in the hotel room lying on the double bed staring at the ceiling. The room was painted white with one window, overlooking a brick wall, shut tight so I couldn't open it. The door leading to the outside looked appealing so I got up out…
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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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She drew her hands out of the chest cavity and looked at the clock.
‘Time of death,’ she said.
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2137167
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it's the very words that are the problem
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I got 3 good hubcaps
That oughta be enough
You can take away my house
You can take away my stuff
Just leave it on the curbside
With my beat-up Cadillac
Got my 3 good hubcaps
I ain’t never coming back
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213654
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I would be reduced to begging on the streets and hoping for a sign of her in soup lines.
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213673
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Like all professors, I'm required to maintain office hours to help my students so I'm at my desk every fourth Tuesday of months without an "r" in them from 10:30 to 11:00 p.m.
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Besides, that might have been the area of his birth, and if so, Jacob was now the director, priest, pallbearer, driver, and custodian of a hometown funeral
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