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6456d71
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"Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens. 1. It is cold. So cold that the Department of Temperature Acknowledgment and Regulation in you brain gets the readings and says, "I can't deal with this. I'm out of here." It puts up the OUT TO LUNCH sign and passes all responsibility to the... 2. Department of Pain and the Processing Thereof, which gets all this gobbledygook from the temperature department that it can't understand. "This is so not our job," it says. So it just starts hitting random buttons, filling you with strange and unpleasant sensations, and calls the... 3. Office of Confusion and Panic, where there is always someone ready to hop on the phone the moment it rings. This office is at least willing to take some action. The Office of Confusion and Panic hitting buttons."
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the-jubilee-express
maureen-johnson
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Maureen Johnson |
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62d090f
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Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.
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the-jubilee-express
maureen-johnson
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Maureen Johnson |
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4fb1d8d
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Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.
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funny
shades-of-london
maureen-johnson
awkward
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Maureen Johnson |
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5619f65
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It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.
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young-adult
the-name-of-the-star
maureen-johnson
ya
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Maureen Johnson |
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3ea14d5
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...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity
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life
maureen-johnson
proximity
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Maureen Johnson |
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b48732b
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Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty--but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson
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maureen-johnson
natural-beauty
the-runaway-queen
unnatural-beauty
the-bane-chronicles
magnus-bane
cassandra-clare
paris
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Cassandra Clare |