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They sat before the fire and played cribbage. He was a good player, but not as good as she was.
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I sit down next to a youngster on the couch. “Would you like to see?” she asks. “See what?” I reply....
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Her husband wouldn’t let her call an exterminator. That doesn't work, he said. The real reason he said no was that he was cheap.
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Max leads the parade up the hill. He is sawing on his violin, wearing nothing but a raincoat.
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But tonight the circus is dark. She is free to go to her lover, to embrace, to float in the night sky.
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I am the marigold wheel no one can understand, the menace your grandfather warned you about. Yes, yes, that last phrase was overkill...
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1231129
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We were over Casper, Wyoming, when some terrorists tried to take over the airplane. They had concealed weapons.
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If it were known that I am as stupid as I am, if the press were to open that page on TV, if the laughter shot itself like fireworks out into the road--
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A veiled lady rises out of the sea then stands still, shivering for a moment. As if reaching to embrace someone, she presses forward into the darkness.
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No flinch, no stretch, no letting the cook get all golden about the chopping block.
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There's still a swatch of jelly on his lower lip. Did you notice? That's not the way it's done, even on the tractor.
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The most she'll see of daylight is a pair of white eyes through the tilted blinds.
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Follow my finger up the canyon wall, past the Chevy wedged into its own ferocious orbit. It was that innocent...
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How's that for a mix of worlds.
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