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who will be calling her Mommy before long." She took a deep," --
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he shot her a dry, sidelong glance. "The phones started"
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The beauty of it, to him, was that the routine was never the same. Bud break never occurred on the same date two years in a row. Waiting for it, watching for it, feeling the excitement when the vines suddenly burst into the palest of pale greens was ... incredible. Same the critical few days when the buds burst into bloom.
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vintage was a precious thing, dependent on variables like the weather, the age of a particular vine, the size of the Japanese beetle population.
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On that bright May morning, with the lilacs budding and the kids off to school, Tom Markham approached his wife with the best of intentions.
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Caroline.
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The only way to deal with old baggage was to open it up and sort through. How else to know what to keep and what to toss?
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When a vine withers and dies, you know you've planted it in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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A big part of growing up is learning to be cautious. It's realizing that there are consequences to everything you do.
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He shook his head. "For me." Leaving the bed, he went to the door, picked up the large picnic basket that the girls were holding, then closed the door, leaving them outside. Much as he had needed their help earlier, he didn't want an audience now."
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She wasn't supposed--to die until--we talked.
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There were ones with garden supplies and ones with health supplies, but neither offered anything remotely appropriate. There
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Solia decir que algunas personas no eran capaces de distinguir y encontrar las perlas entre la arena, o unicamente tenian la fuerza de caracter para quitar la arena de unas cuantas perlas y terminaban solo con una gargantilla.
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Are you still teaching?
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Is it?" I asked. "The past, over and done? Is it ever?" "Ever changed? No. Ever accepted? Yes. It becomes who you are. That doesn't have to be a bad thing."
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When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life.
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Tonight?" Hope asked."
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Everyone in the world is guilty of something.
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her. May I use the car?
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Susan could feel his anguish radiating through the fingers that held hers so tightly. She was close enough to him to know what he was feeling far more than fear for his mother's life. He hadn't seen the woman in fifteen years. At that moment, he was deeply regretting the separation.
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Sometimes we do all the wrong things for all the right reasons. We can be our own worst enemies. It takes a while to get over that.
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Emptiness did that to a person. Her insides were a big black hole where dreams of her mother had been.
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big part of growing up is learning to be cautious. It's realizing that there are consequences to everything you do.
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Hope is the future lined in gold,
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Entitled? That's a dangerous word, Greg. Be careful how you use it. People aren't entitled to things. They have to earn them. That goes for money and respect and love.
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There are two reasons people change. One is if they've opened their minds, the other if their hearts have been broken.
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