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When he leaves, she collects all the caterpillars she can find at the bottom of the garden and sits cross-legged in the shade of the buddleia. She makes a hollow in her skirt and drops in the smooth green, the furry black, the red, spotted and the spiny ones and watches as…
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4160
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Growing up, Orion had always been told his father lived a good life then died from an illness....When Orion got old enough his mother took him for a walk and told him the truth.
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12411
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Do me a favor: Listen to me. I don’t ask for much.
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14212712
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Borges must be so proud somewhere
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104900
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When you have lived with pain so long, you grow old and the old man inside of you takes over. That’s just the way it is.
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21140
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Her nervous toes danced under the table. She thought, on this dismal day in South West London, the time had come to confess her state of tangled affairs.
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155700
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Yahweh’s a betting deity, as bad as Lucifer at times. If you don’t believe me, look at the duck-billed platypus. Yahweh lost that time. So did the duck, but that’s another story.
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115611
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On an overcast and humid day in August, Jesus—with Dad’s permission, of course—decided to make his grand return.
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225128
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I hear voices through the open window at night which sound like, but are not, the voices of people I know.
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21593
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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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115765
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Even the neighborhood houses show their sunburnt faces and symptoms of heat stroke in the glow of their night lights.
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18251
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There were the first months, when it didn't happen at all for Jerry. He felt some shyness and embarrassment, but in Dot's mind the joy was too great and this meant good things.
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15351
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Lydia let the grease cool in her frying pan. She drank three cups of coffee and had to lie down.
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1730117
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The revolution. It found me, and I didn’t even get blown by the bomb.
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3000
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Renee’s eyes shifted from the backseat in the mirror to her left shoulder, switching lanes. She was a fender away from a newspaper headline, obituary most likely, but luck was just passing and signaled the all clear.
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