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I'm going to get back to that place where crumble is a topping and not a way of life. "You've"
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A criminal case is an assemblage of facts and details in an order that presents a story to a jury. Some pieces of the puzzle are magnified and others are diminished. In some cases, pieces are hidden. Or, as in the case of Alan Dawson, tampered with. Meg
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As we stand there, the rain rolling off umbrellas, a man pushes through the soggy crowd. He's tall with dark, wavy hair that brushes his ears. He's wearing a long, black overcoat, and his shoes are expensive and likely ruined from the swelling puddle that has suddenly surrounded us like a moat. Samuel runs to him and Angela follows, coils her arm around him.
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Gregg Olsen |
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I'm sitting on a barstool in her kitchen while she hovers over me. "Right," I tell Stacy. "One night. That's all."
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Serena
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Maybe she had
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a negative soul who made a point of slicing the joy from any possible moment with her razor of a tongue.
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Gregg Olsen |
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Beetles never stop. They gnaw silently and relentlessly. Guilt is like that too.
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Mrs. Wallace
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San Francisco "Eyewitness" news team had"
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I thought that being with someone who seemed to love me was better than being alone.
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These aren't
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TV movie announced by USA Network also occupied Mary Kay's time and though she didn't
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Gregg Olsen |
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cell finally finds service outside of Fruitland and I pull the BMW over to make some calls. First
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touching on the points of two lives that had once intersected, and were now reunited.
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He's a narcissist, and I wonder what it says about me that I'm willing to sleep with a man whose eyes constantly look past me in search of his own reflection.
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A higher power was never a crutch but a scaffold. Faith kept me steady when I needed it most.
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It's funny to love someone so much that it hurts.
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Gregg Olsen |
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It is always easier to sleep at night if the monsters outside your house only knock when you give them cause.
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Japanese collector
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It's a vacation rental. Transient. People come and go.
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said when he came back inside. "I was telling Elan before you came home"
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you know Mimi Garcia had a little brother?" he"
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Gregg Olsen |
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When you have something that you carry inside and never talk about, you don't ever unleash it on a stranger. And since you've never talked about it, you don't know even how to really frame your thoughts. You fear that your words will tumble out in a way that will only make things worse. If that's even possible.
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Gregg Olsen |
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The ones that test the limits sometimes do the most amazing things in life. That's what I've always thought.
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Gregg Olsen |
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Mimi Garcia's little brother.
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Gregg Olsen |
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Duct tape, it turns out, is useful for many things beyond household repair. When I woke up, my wrists and legs had been bound. My lips had been sealed shut. I remember running my tongue over my front teeth, feeling the sticky residue of the adhesive. It's a nothing moment, I know. But it's one of those things that lift the curtain every now and then. I hate going to the dentist, because after a cleaning by the hygienist, my tongue wanders o..
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Gregg Olsen |
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Mimi killed her brother,
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bullshit." "I wish. I just got off the phone with her so-called lawyer--Deke Meyer. They want to work out a deal so that Mimi can be"
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Jesus, some thought, would get a new lawyer.
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my sister and I want to laugh out loud. She stands in her kitchen pouring a really good chardonnay. Her wrists, like her ankles, are perfect. Her fingers slender and adorned with the Tiff--the rock on a platinum
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Sam
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harshly, the first shift in a demeanor that Bauer
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Claire and Dorothea are ill because they can afford to be ill.
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Thinking and dreaming of what happened is a far different experience than giving voice to events that haunt you. You cry when you tell someone something. You shake. You get sick. You seek comfort. When you don't speak about it and just think it, you don't fall apart.
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A warm smile, and some serious electricity passed between us. I felt it. I didn't know if she did or didn't. Hasn't everyone experienced that moment when there's a charge in the air between you and another person?
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At the end of the day, trust is everything.
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Gregg Olsen |
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You don't get to be the decider of what is yours and what can't be someone else's experience.
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Gregg Olsen |
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It's hard to unbraid a life with a man that you believe in.
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Gregg Olsen |
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He always knew the right thing to say. He understood how to shift a conversation to a place that moved the content from the maudlin to true compassion.
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Gregg Olsen |
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Gossip sometimes becomes a reality for some.
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How did we get here?' Sophie asks. 'We drove our cars,' I say, teasing. She makes a face and signals for more wine. 'Funny,' she says. 'I mean to this place in our lives when everything seems so perfect but isn't?
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Gregg Olsen |
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But learned personality traits aren't often based on present reality but on a past from which there is no escape.
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Gregg Olsen |
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Our marriage is quietly rocky. Silently in shambles. I love her without a scintilla of doubt.
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