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				The weather was cold and wet, and all day the crowds had been thin in the ten-in-one tent. Up on their platform, Fern and Rose sat on a wide threadbare chair, flanked by a pair of saxophones on stands.  
					
				 
				
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				   It hadn’t been a great job, but I sometimes miss the dreamy languor of the waterbed store. It had taken time to realize I was a decoy, that the business was a front for Doty’s drug operation.              My… 
					
				 
				
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				I really only started reading books after the folks left. Right away I thought maybe I should have a system for it, so I go alphabetically by author, one book by one author. The first time around I was reading the books everyone knows, so when I was in th 
					
				 
				
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				“I can’t believe you went ahead and got pregnant without me,” I said. 
					
				 
				
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				He wanted to say the waves were colossal, but part of him didn’t want to scare them. He liked them being brave. He liked them being fearless. 
					
				 
				
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52 9 7 
      
			 
			
			
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				It is once again the coldest day of the year. And I don’t know what to do.  
					
				 
				
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				Not many people like Geminis. 
					
				 
				
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