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I follow what pulls me forward.
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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I texted a wickety-split, tax-declaring New York-based international escort, a moonlighting, all-pro Kit, whose day job on Wall Street yields no bonus.
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The real problem with being face blind isn't that you can't recognize faces. It's that people expect you to be able to.
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There were only six passengers aboard the small ferry...
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Lo and Behold, there you are beside me
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my God, I have no time, no time
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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.
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He asked what I used for birth control and I told him, “prayer”. He smiled the kind of smile you smile at young girls who don’t know any better.
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The decision to wage war on terrorism gave to terrorism its political legitimation.
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The first inkling that I might be in love with Josie came at our high school senior day outing at, oh, what's its name, state park. I forgot, but it doesn't matter. She smiled, did a little wave and stepped away from her friends, lifted her sundress a little to keep it dry,…
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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Valentine Dayso excitingit means he really loves herwhat will he bringshe waitshe comes home with a hang dogexpression on his faceher valentine was leftat the gambling table
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(Suddenly, too lazy to pull even one title from his shelves, he thought: if it's now the “Dao De Jing”, shouldn't it also now be the “I Jing”? Alas, he was no translator.)
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I didn’t question any of it and instead sat motionless as she dropped my wrists and walked away seconds later.
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the champagne foam cascades like cherry blossom ensnared in the first gales of spring
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New waitress/bartender
draws my attention to
bare ankles and red hair
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I saw/
star shine in/
my silver pail
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There’s things you can change in this world and things you can’t. We have to figure out which is which. Though I never was much good at it, I guess.
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There will be no more internal birds like singing clocks, not like the lovely ones I know and still look forward to hearing, ringing like little bells in the church y belfry of the newly sprouting mornings to come, not unless the birds…
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For you I bring the circus, I reinvent
the shine
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It was always your body that told so much --
lips working some secret out
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I sink until water saturates my lashes, waiting, breathless, for the words to stop.
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The winter following their son's death, Mr. Kelly's wife became absorbed by the tracks that ran in back of their house. At any given hour in the night, he'd hear her in the next room, their son's old room where she now slept, shuffling through dresser drawers. He…
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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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His grandmother's recipe called for the pasta dough to be beaten with a bone--and not just any bone either. It had to be a human femur. This was his first hurdle. Where would he get such a thing at this hour in this part of town? Or, for that matter, at any…
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