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  • Snow tumbles out of the clouds and the steam from the car billows against the glass of the windshield, as thick as the fog that surrounds my mind. I stretch ...
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  • It was working, I was busy, and focused on the swimming lessons. The shrill of the long whistle blast interrupted me; it indicated the last buddy check before a favorite ...
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  • Special. Something we all want to be called. Meaning better than the rest, different in a unique way. Now when we were children we were told all people are unique ...
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  • - Только ты не переживай сильно. Мы все в порядке. Мы же давно знаем его самого и все его «завихрения» вместе взятые. Одно плохо, мы никогда не знаем наверняка, когда ...
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  • ___Александра уже целый час сидела в пустой спальной комнате, напряжённо потирая руки и уставившись бессмысленным взглядом в темноту сумерек, которые сгустились по углам из-за плотно занавешенных окон. Иногда она прислушивалась ...
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  • ___Но это лето особенное. Оно показало мне иные горизонты, отличные от тех, что Я привыкла видеть раньше. Оно широко раскинуло руки по сторонам и сказало: "Посмотри, как прекрасен мир! Посмотри, ...
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  • The sounds inside his head became muffled as he tried helplessly to pin down the melody. He heard waves of sounds being distorted by some natural or unnatural contraption. He ...
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  • Quietly, I knew it was over. Beyond the silence between us we were still as tightly bound as could be, his legs wrapped around mine, my chin tucked into the ...
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  • All her shyness became coyness, and she pushed me deeper in the bean bag until I was a turtle. As I struggled, she smiled and rolled me, laughing into the ...
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  • I would have never imagined something so quixotic and capricious falling out of my mouth with such grace. As it fell, I walked away and hung on the door frame, ...
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