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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.

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For you I bring the circus, I reinvent the shine

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Her arm rests at her feet on the platform. She wears the remains of tiny leather boots. She is naked except for her boots. For a hundred years she wore a Russian dancer’s dress.

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