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Our problems started with a few back and forth texts of emojis late one night. The next evening, a Friday, typically my poker night with the guys, my girlfriend came to the door.“You brought over pizza, how nice,” I said. “And, oh, gosh, look at that, a…
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I admit, my voice may have gotten a little high. Higher than usual, I mean. “C’mon now, that was the only reason we came in here in the first place. It’s not, I mean, take a look around, it’s not like we’re at the Waldorf Astoria here.”
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The field opens up to us like something born.
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The painting known as "Whistler's Mother" gave birth to a son...
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Many years later, when I saw her again on a crowded subway car approaching Times Square, I thought back to the night when we both shared a piece of cardboard on the roof of a freight train moving through Mexico.
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The bathroom faucet is leaking again. Do they make diapers for faucets?
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The first time it happened the newsmen said the usual, “This just in…” Then just sat there staring straight into the camera for the longest time, nearly the whole news hour, waiting for there to be some kind of news, any news at all? But nothing, just tha
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Ok, so I’m sitting here trying to write through a frigging cold. And I. . .Oops, . . . . . . wait a sec!. . . I’m stopped, astounded, stunned between coughing my left lung clear over my keyboard and watching it flopping on the back of my desk. . .
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“Lunge to your right,” the woman on the screen instructs. She is easily six-months pregnant but still looks fit and healthy. “Now show off your baby.” She centers herself, splays her arms, and thrusts her belly out towards us. “Lunge to the left. Now show
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About the only problem with him now is that he has to stop every so often while we’re out walking, and he’ll pee on a bush.
Well, he’s a dog.
Well, at least it’s not on every bush.
But he’s a dog, what did you expect?
He pees more often th
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And you should know, every woman smiles at a man buying flowers, because … we can imagine. We can only hope.
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We were at Fox River and I was in the dark water, swimming naked beside Rick DeMille, with my light skin glowing as we swam up behind you and Sharon in your dad’s ski boat sitting silent in the water.
And I could hear her whimpering, “Oh, Jesus!” when
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He watches his paralyzed left arm arc across his body, then swivel around and disappear behind his back. He does this over and over again. He's very high and it makes him laugh.
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["This is not a snippet of text. This is only a test."]
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The swing creaked to-and-fro in the fog, the absence of a child telling everything except the why.
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