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It was 1986 when I met you. We both lived on Decatur Avenue in a tank that had enough room for you, me, and all our fake plastic accoutrement. I was 30 years old -- really old for a jellyfish. Some people thought I'd die sooner. But I knew better. I was…
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1. Walking here
with you
on these narrow
strands
of clean air
& imagination
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16010
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"Let's make a wish on a falling star."
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The leadoff hitter must be comfortable accepting that he will almost never be the hero and will not be anyone's favorite and he will not be the baseball card that is traded for simply because his skills and abilities are subtle.
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32000
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Love and headphone static radiating like an old address sticker peeling from a rusty mailbox.
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8000
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Dear their top tier totem: however prickly we reach, unlike here—we may not touch our Tao of love.
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93401
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I felt my words reach out and try to grab him by the heart. They missed.
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Mirko returns!
All the words have been said.
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I am eighteen years old and the events of this morning take place in 1979, the year the first Vietnamese boat refugees arrive in Ireland, the year Aer Lingus appoints its first female pilot, Gráinne Cronin. The hurler, Christy Ring dies that March. It is
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10400
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Switch on the mobile, switch off the real. When nothing happened, I switched off both.
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124233
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two roses her eyes
aqua-blue
no, blue-green
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22942
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So why, said he, is she slacking...
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101531
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When she buys a new dress on sale at Macy’s, with a low-cut neckline and a flattering belt that cinches at the waist, and she puts it on and saunters up to her husband, stretched out across the couch reading the newspaper, and asks, “How do I look?” with
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She wanted to let Reg explain, to make it all make sense. She wanted to tell him how she felt, but her words always tangled like hairs in a drain.
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