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Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of... 
I turn over and lie flat on my back,staring at the ceiling. When she slept beside me, I slept well. ... 
I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed ... 
From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor... 
I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... 
There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would... 
'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the... 
Circenn moved swiftly, intending to catch the tear upon his finger, kiss it away, then kiss away all... 
She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, an... 
I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and wa... 
She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... 
There’s another story I know. This one doesn’t have any swords or visions. This one is about a b... 
For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was ... 
she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surp... 
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... 
I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for ... 
I think life is sweeter shared; and if anything were to happen to my partner, I would find it really... 
And one day, as she was buried deep in her thoughts, she heard a still small voice ask her
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After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip in... 
Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “I... 
I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggl... 
When my grandma passed away, the one person I prayed for was my mom. I just hope that she finds peac... 
Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It wa... 
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her... 
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing ... 
Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She... 
At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my bo... 
Did she make you laugh? Did she love you as much as you loved her? Did she protect you and warm you ... 
I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a w... 
I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn�... 
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... 
What was she like?"
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... 
Abby touched her palm to my cheek. "You know what, Mr. Maddox?"
She glared at him through tear-filled eyes. “You talk of your pain? You cannot even begin to under... 
And for about the millionth time in her life she felt an overwhelming gratitude for her best friend.... 
Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any ... 
She wanted to be true to herself... and she had a lot of demons because of it. I think her sexuality... 
Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a crampe... 
I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she ... 
She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co... 
All I had to do was die a little, and you get a new planet!"
Time to hunt?" Cattie-brie cried, satisfied that she had gotten her point across. She rose beside Wu... 
I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined ... 
She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... 
Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... 
I stood beside the U-Haul, and I just watched her. I stared at her while she looked on with the sadd... 
I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet corne... 
She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow... 
The door opened, and it was
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I wanted to spend more time with her; she was constantly in my thoughts, and right now the only thin... 
Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ... 
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... 
What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested ... 
I'm a fucking idiot.
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Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in m... 
An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in c... 
From this day forward, I vowed
I grab on to her wrists, pull them away from her face and kiss her lips, lips that can’t kiss me b... 
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awh... 
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
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The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
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Get off your butt and join the Marines! 
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
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