1364 17 15
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Sometimes he made us punch pillows. "Harder!" the shrink would yell.
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1286 12 10
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Later I asked Mark if he wanted to watch, but his wife wouldn’t let him. She didn’t like kinky stuff, she said.
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1222 8 6
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There was something wrong with this picture. Was he the man she had slept with last night?
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1294 11 7
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On the bank of the stream, we take off our clothes and dash into the water.
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30 6 1
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I didn't see her for awhile after that, but old habits die hard. I figured sooner or later I'd be back for more.
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1176 10 8
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Afterward, at the motel, I asked her why she liked sex so much, and she said she liked the taste.
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1261 16 14
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It was oddly quiet, and the air had a strangely urgent quality. The sun came out, and water on the leaves and branches turned oaks and aspens into Christmas trees.
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1896 22 21
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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1650 10 7
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The birds were stacked up in the branches of a pine tree behind the feeder. Several were sitting on the fence. “They’re massing,” she said.
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1338 9 8
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They sat on the couch, and he tried to unbutton her buttons, but she fended him off.
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1496 21 18
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When I died, she said, she was going to have me cremated and put my ashes in the cats’ litter box.
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1301 9 8
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Bert also said that somebody else at the meeting was complaining about his high blood pressure, and Bert repeated what Hank had said, that he was glad to have any blood pressure at all.
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1514 19 17
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Jake remembers that Amy told him once that she thought that somehow he would always be a part of her life. That was before she went to Spain and married an American bull fighter.
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1542 14 11
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Her husband wouldn’t let her call an exterminator. That doesn't work, he said. The real reason he said no was that he was cheap.
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1218 13 11
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Max leads the parade up the hill. He is sawing on his violin, wearing nothing but a raincoat.
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