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"Poor Johnny, poor Johnny." He clucked his tongue.
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25643623
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I am everything she wanted me to be. I am crossed legs, chest out; I am wearing a soft white dress—lacy and completely inappropriate to the Midwest, to 2011, to anything about my existence.
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7152
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He could not recall what crimson felt like, or magenta. Plum was a distant, misty memory.
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103221
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She’s always had one foot on a pedestal and the other in a gutter.
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5875
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"I knocked out more teeth than these three peckerwoods' got between them," I yell to Kenny over the boat's motor.
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1298178
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"Your mother does sailors," the parrot screeched.
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human intrusion or wishful thinking or just sorry luck
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4162
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Alive! he thinks. A miracle! I’m alive!
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134167
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... and when he shook his head, a brief motion, his mouth a hyphen,
the air grew colder yet...
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124055
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He ran for home, screaming for help in the silent ravine.
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8422
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Meanwhile my pink gum eraser heart was marked with questions.
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128400
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He was arrested for a horrible crime. It took more than three weeks to identify the body. The newspapers were vague so as not to terrify anyone. He hung his head low as he pled guilty.
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113622
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No one is a Puritan under all that powder!
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the world is too fractured
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Mama's good at finding things, but hardly ever what she's looking for.
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