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“No grocery bags for us. We’re arriving with class.”
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That day I was going to write a story about glass but instead stopped and listened
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Sue Ellen walked on. “You were thinking about me -- I saw you.”
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The streets were damp and cold that July day in Urumqi.
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I put my arms around her and whisper to her while she plays the piano. She wiggles and tells me to stop it.
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Jake goes back inside, turns on the TV, and sits down. It is the end of the world! A lane of the Bay Bridge has fallen into the bay. A building downtown has lost its skin.
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The youth think they are immortal.
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It's the last Wednesday in August in Bunol, Spain.
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Near the Azores, just beneath the sparkling Atlantic ripples, a fleet of sperm whales are floating vertically, as if kneeling in prayer. Their slick, grey humps dance with the light in an underwater ballet, making inkblot shadows. I drift with them,…
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They pulled him from the cell.
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The one he liked best was a middle aged woman who didn't wear underwear. She had a terrific figure.
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Sam liked collecting women's names in his lips like an aviary.
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Len and I sit on Harpo's porch, drink beer and gab. It's hot, even for July. Len and I joke and laugh, and Harpo stares off into the middle distance.
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My wife stood in the doorway and talked to the back of my head. “You really should talk to somebody about this,” she said.
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The Marigold gloves are yellow (figures!) and medium, the apron ironed with a touch of starch added...
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