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				Ever since the comet missed earth, then bathed us all in its radiant tail, things on earth have been topsy-turvy. The comet's tail gave a few people super-powers; almost all of them were good folks, though some were brighter than others. 
					
				 
				
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				"Natalie's a Russian."  He was pulling her up from the chair, spinning her around wildly.  "Doesn't she remind you of Anna Karenina?"...  When I took hold of her small white hand it felt spooky, like a skinned bird. 
					
				 
				
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				#1 MISCELLANEOUS NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
     What kind of person would the author’s daughter, Gracie, become?  That things didn’t look bright for her future was an understatement:  Mother: alcoholic, dead at age 25 from puking her brains out; Father:  m 
					
				 
				
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				Now it was, distorted as it was through the sepia tones of mourning.  It's that sweet spot - the place where fantasy and memory collide.  It's what makes reality livable.
 
					
				 
				
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				When I was a kid, I was terrified of dying in a bombing,
which is strange, really, because I lived in Long Island,
which has relatively few bombings to speak of. 
					
				 
				
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