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One day my wife got so mad at me she raked her fingernails down my face.
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111187
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The lecturers are retired professors from Oxford or Cambridge. They are snarky and wise and aloof.
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113155
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We spend our days on the beach, working on our tans. My pale wife hides under a big floppy hat. The water is crystal clear.
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1159109
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At five o’clock Jake joins the crowd at the back door, walks through the slush to the parking lot with Betty Boop.
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1383137
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Here’s how you do it. First you get a ladder, a long one.
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5463
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Raymond Carver spent some time at Duffy’s rehab in the Napa Valley in California.
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12871711
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When he got out of sick bay, they moved him into a room with three other alkies. A kid, a tree trimmer, and a Catholic priest.
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106686
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The bar was packed. Fascinated, Tom watched the shenanigans going on around him.
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14181816
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I can’t take my eyes off a tall blonde with green eyes. I catch her eye.
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12271312
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The service was a disaster. The Protestants bobbed up and down. They didn't know when to stand, when to sit. I
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1331119
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My wife is making lunch. I suggest leftover pizza. We are going over to the neighbor’s house for pizza tonight, my wife says. I tell her that’s okay. I like pizza.
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15392315
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“Why, you tell a story,” one young fellow said. The expression on his face said “How gauche, how passé!”
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13671310
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Fortunately, when the bird hits the sliding glass doors in our den, I know what to do.
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106687
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I ask if anyone has a poem or a story they would like to read. Everybody's hand shoots up.
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13531512
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I took Annie to the zoo, and the tigers got out. The little tigers, that is. Cubs. Two of them. The zoo employees scurried about, peeking into nooks and crannies.
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