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  • "You do this every day?" I promise 'em 'fore that'd I'd stop speakin' ta disrupt 'is job. 'Cause he gotta do a certain 'mount fo' daddy, if he don' meet ...
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  • The first time it was a shock, a soft blue shock. Blue sky on a dreary day, I remember quite well. His eyes, incredibly kind, meeting mine in an aquamarine ...
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  • i asked jeremy where don was. "he's out back picking 921." he said 921 was a route number. that route was my favorite cuz it was the one that delivered ...
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  • but that's ok. i mean.. if i ended up with my dick sucked then what tomorrow? i'd have to see her at work. this is how it would go had ...
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  • I wave my hair back and forth I wave my hair back and forth ....3 am and I have that song stuck in my head ... can't sleep which is ...
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  • Muriel looks off into the distance, staring. It always seemed to help. Jon placed his hand under his chin. He stares down at the ticket in his lap. It reads: ...
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  • I never thought of life as a roller coaster or as anything else that any one ever told me life was supposed to be. I saw life as something to ...
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  • "You don't gotta stay 'ere all day." "I kno'." The sun is real high up, now, the day stretchin' to 'is middle. I heard daddy once go by, Mary callin' ...
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  • I thought of my stepbrother. And then I think of the pain in general. That growing rage that maybe even started before I knew what it was. When I was ...
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  • Where does the time go, after we've sailed through and soiled it and looked around to only just catch its tail end darting around a corner. Maybe it is stored ...
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