1173 12 9
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What happened later that evening is unclear. When Mickey got back to his quarters, he was in good spirits. Buoyant even.
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4192114
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I've come three thousand miles to watch my father die.
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1236109
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"Why didn't you tell me it was Halloween?" he asked. She shook her head. The doorbell rang.
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153955
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“Why is it so warm? Do you feel that? I think it’s...pulsing.”
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117643
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And he was wearing a mask. Gorilla mask over his gorilla face.
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10732
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139043
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...I grew up in a provincial town which at the time had no bookstore and no library — no library even at school...
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10376
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Tia who, flanked by geriatrics in black on a lawn full of wreaths, chose that particular moment to show me her ring. She’d turned the Montgomery-Smith memorial service into an engagement party. An engagement party with a body count.
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177995
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423 days.
The old man still possessed the child-like habit of biting his lower lip when he wrote. The thick skin as dry as pork rind. He recorded the days without rain in a spare, makeshift almanac. The pages waxened from the soiled press of his hand
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105000
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I traced the vein that rose in her temple when she got angry all the way along her body until it ashed out varicosely on her smooth calf.
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185083
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Was I a dreamer? Was I asking for too much?
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19701818
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and all the beautiful girls are in the river
And they went in dirty
But they came out clean
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121921
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The man was happy, filled with it, the happiest he had ever been. He was so happy that he felt he did not deserve it and he deflated.
A woman with apples for shoulders and an eep for a laugh told him that he did deserve to be happy and the man thought
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1100
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I have mine cut simply, no bangs.
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129053
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This woman is naked to the waist and then nakeder below that.
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