1522 9 1
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She was skinny and with breasts like a wound up skein of yarn.
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93 0 1
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I'm pretty sure that I wasn't the only person ever to leave a beauty salon dolled up and ready take her life by the horns. But if I was a betting person, I'd lay odds that what happened to me next never happened to you.
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1304 2 0
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Benton showed her his old room, a shrine of old posters and records. But it had been cleaned out, made to look like a guest room. “Kiss me,” Benton said. “April.” “That was just a name, so don't get any…
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112 12 6
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It's a kind of tacky little buffet.
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1079 0 0
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Your father, his father, and his before that, your mother, her mother, and all the way back have kept a tradition by chance or by will to each have a baby (or several) until…
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696 2 0
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820 0 0
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she's bent over and reaching into the oven to pour fat over a chicken. I just want to tug those pants down and thrust.
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92 0 0
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One hand on my heart, one over my lips, "Talk to me now," she whispered. Joined at the hips. I did and I did--in warm sweetness we slid. I said some things I don't know what, succumbing to that goose-pimpled jack-hammering butt. And I want to laugh but oh no, no, no,…
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1003 0 0
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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields /
Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/
Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/
Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/
scheduled breathing poses
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1363 2 0
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...will it be as overwhelmingly dull and tedious as de Sade?
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119 9 2
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As she stood outside, puffing on a cigarette in the wet air, she still couldn't recall his name.
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614 6 4
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His shoulders were smaller than my fists, but he was the closest thing I ever wanted to a man.
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1459 0 0
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The pit of my stomach was bottoming out, this lurching sort-of feeling one experiences when one has coasted WELL OVER an abyss and has no way of finding one's bearings . . .
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82 2 0
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He put Claudine in the barn. This caused him some pain—he’d have preferred for her to be able to stay with him in the house. His mother and father, were very strict Lutherans and insisted on marriage before ‘bunking together’.
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123 4 1
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She wore a tiara and red sequin dress to the airport. Her socks didn't match. Everyone stared, even in San Francisco.
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