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My guy was Croatian. I sought an Italian.
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1166 5 4
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If you are a family member or friend of a person incarcerated in a correctional facility...
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1234 10 5
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If there was a God he was deaf in both ears, blind in both eyes and dumb.
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38 3 3
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I suggested the hospital was haunted. He thought about it. Maybe. There were a lot of electrical outlets, he said.
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500 19 16
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1394 15 14
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You need buttered broths and to
copy old writings by hand by
very poor light.
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1785 8 5
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There's a drain in the floor.
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58 3 2
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He envisioned Ms. Vergust slumped on the couch, between her weighty legs a beer can, Pabst sloshing onto her bathrobe, a joint down to a nub burning her lips.
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1225 13 3
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—It’s difficult to say, he said. I have mood swings. Women don’t like that. They become upset.
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1236 6 7
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“Too perfect.” my therapist intervenes in assurance, “You did enough, really. More than anyone else would.” I know the subtext is that I possibly did more than I should. My appointment is coincidentally later that day, after his goodbye letter arrives in
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946 3 2
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Instead, I get things like,
“Why can’t you find a nice man with cancer or a bum leg?”
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