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In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.


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BILL GATES Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all th...
BILL WATTERSON I have an addiction to caffeine.
BILL AYERS