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You do understand what I mean!" he exclaimed, pleased to see Maude responding to his song. "I chose Nina Simone to show you something else. Just like you, Nina Simone had a classical background. When she was younger, she wanted to become a concert pianist. Her skill was beyond measure and she used it in a wide repertoire of jazz, blues, and R&B songs. And I think you can do the same. Music knows no limits and I truly understand why James in..
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I know your type. And I know you would smash my heart to little pieces. I don't want to end up looking like the twenty plates I handled tonight,
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They looked at me as if I was telling them we'd found aliens on Mars when I told them that you were talented. I've never seen anything like it. Most parents are proud of their offspring and see their progeny as prodigy. I usually have to tone them down, not the other way around." "The Ruchets aren't my parents,"
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Matt heaved a deep sigh of relief. "I thought you'd never ask," he answered. Then he kissed her, and the bright, shimmering lights that illuminated the city exploded in a joyous, dancing array of fireworks."
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What Maude didn't know but found out soon enough, was that ten minutes were never just ten minutes in a subway breakdown in New York City.
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This is what hell looks like, she thought.
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They both felt the void left by the absence of a mother's love. Was it better to miss a mother's warm embrace or to never have known it? Maude wondered, feeling closer to him than she'd ever felt before
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I hope you're not seasick," Matt said, leaning over the rail. "I hope you'll be able to swim back to the shore if I push you over the rail," Maude replied. "It would be such a tragic loss for the world if I were to drown. Picture the headlines 'Eighteen-Year-Old Pop Sensation Murdered by a Crazy Fan.'" "Need I remind you that I am not a fan?" "You made that perfectly clear, but that's not how the tabloids will see it."
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The teachers then announced three hours of free time before the departure at nine p.m. at Notre-Dame.
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She isn't at all like Cinderella in the Disney version who just waits for her Prince Charming.
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The bare elms, dressed in a white robe of ice crystals, showed the way in an enchanting alley resembling a pathway to an elfin world.
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