1301 8 8
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Out the window we could see the parking lot and, across the street, the Bijou Moonlight Laundromat.
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1164 12 8
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Are they too old for life's little pleasures? The answer comes as I pass them on the canyon road one morning.
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The gun is heavy. The tiny women hold it in both hands.
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1686 27 17
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Oh what fun they had riding that bike! What adventures! They went everywhere, in town and out.
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2193 20 15
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I tell my friend, the animal lover, not to get too near the panther's cage. "Why not?" she asks. "You'll see," I say.
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1201 13 11
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Ah, how sweet is forbidden fruit, how delicious undiscovered sin!
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1769 14 15
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A crone dressed in black pours liquid from a bottle onto the egg. Whiskey. Gasp! The egg cooks before our eyes!
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1480 18 17
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Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.
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51 8 5
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During the winter, some of the fellows went to a rink to ice skate, and one time Good Blindy went with them. His friends got Fred outfitted with a pair of rented skates and turned him loose on the ice.
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20 2 1
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Mark’s outside mowing his lawn after dark again. I suspect this spate of nocturnal activity was occasioned by yet another dispute with our neighbor’s Mrs.
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1305 16 11
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Once a student brought him a jar of black widow spiders. Tony put it on his desk. Somehow the jar got tipped over, and the spiders got out.
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1372 16 16
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There were one hundred titles on the list. One hundred books that could neither be assigned nor put on a recommended reading list.
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1204 15 14
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The rain pelted down, it got dark, and they couldn't see a thing. The wind roared like a thousand locomotives.
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Millie was a good woman, Bobby said. A good Christian woman. Well, I said, you can’t hold that against her.
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What happened later that evening is unclear. When Mickey got back to his quarters, he was in good spirits. Buoyant even.
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