989 3 2
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I advertised in the local paper for a model.
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14783020
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Toting a sawed-off shotgun at the altar
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21600
|
You could not only hear, but feel the pulse of thundering traffic from a flyover that arced a quarter of a mile from the communal lobby of unpolished floors, multiple letterboxes and dehydrated ferns in various plaster pots.
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68776
|
The thing about living alone is, you’ve got no one to scratch your back. If it’s a whisper of an itch, a fleeting thing, it can usually be taken care of by leaning casually against a doorframe and swaying back and forth. Which can actually be quite nice,
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115396
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Hey, how are you? she squeaked.
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985126
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"You gonna be old before you're old," my father had told her.
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115142
|
Albertine had never loved Agnés. Oh! She had liked her very much. Especially her wit, the skin at the nape of her neck, even the two freckles on her arse that would bloom when licked.
|
118333
|
Susan was twenty-four when it happened again, but she had neither the patience nor the attachment to see it through.
|
99376
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"It was John-Darren who once told me that he felt sorry for women."
|
150377
|
The suspended heart became an oracle of sorts. Hung from a string, immersed in the kind of glass container in which tulips grow, it was located between Bath and Body Works and Kleinfelter's Jewelers at the north entrance of the mall. Someone had lost it,
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12186
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I dreamed, like all girls,
of my dance in white satin, never this:
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11176
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God created everything
except apparently women's bodies, for which they are
entirely themselves to blame.
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9781814
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There are things we must not say.
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153107
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In the west the sun is sinking. Thank you
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1491211
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I watch the dance
of devotion
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