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A universe of knowledge, soon all lost, thrown out with the orange peels.
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117096
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"He doesn't have a parish," I said. "He works in a hospital in the East Bay. He told me that if I were in that hospital and I woke up and saw him, I was in big trouble."
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1168149
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When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
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119175
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“It’s a sad thing,” I said, “when a man has to suffer just for getting a little on the side.”
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“Mommy,” the voice was thin as a fledgling's. “I'm here, baby,” I said. An arm rose from the pavement and small fingers wound themselves into my…
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Panini stood around the pan like an audience at Madam Butterfly, applauding but jalapeno with envy...
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I’m stretched out beneath the table watching her feet rub together like another pair of fussing hands.
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Minerva one night had a change of plans, for Mr. Wright knocked on her door in the form of a potbellied perv with a Vaseline mustache.
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952103
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One afternoon the kids from next door come over. Marion is our age, Jimmy a year younger. Marion's pretty. I can't even look at her.
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She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.
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2000
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She ordered us a pizza and we sat at the kitchen table eating cheap two for one deal pizza. I pushed the grease around with a crust. My mother drank a tall Tanqueray and tonic.
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We’re more into the punishment that works its way in through the skin and coats the heart anonymously.
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He hid in parks and abandoned apartment houses until his wounds healed. He ate nuts, berries, and seeds. A shy, gentle soul, he watched children playing on the monkey bars, and thought of his lost youth.
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Later I take his hand, and I lead him up the stairs. I want to show him something, I say.
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To hell with it, I thought. If it goes in, we go in with it. Wish my ex was here.
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