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What's wrong, babe? You sound
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I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter,
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since the AP curriculum was nationally standardized. If they wanted to turn the public schools into chain stores, it worked for him.
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Dove parlano tamburi, tacciono le leggi. Where drums beat, laws are silent. An
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under the law, schools were required to evaluate a child and formulate an individualized education program, or an IEP, to set forth the services and support he was supposed to receive and to help him achieve in his areas of need.
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Her father had grown up with The Tonys; Tony "From-Down-The-Block" LoMonaco, "Pigeon" Tony Lucia, and Tony "Two Feet" Pensiera, which got shortened to "Feet," so even his nickname had a nickname."
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Hannah was out of earshot, then turned to Caitlin.
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were lightly lipsticked. "The VP called it a reorganization,"
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Alice was back, the landlord was evicting her, and she was out of dog food. She hadn't felt so totally at a loss since the day her mother had passed. And her employees were staring at her, momentarily speechless.
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Or we can go upstairs and play with the laughing gas. The dentist tells me he does nitrous with the hygienist.
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The problem is that three of the neighboring farms leased their land to Frazer Gas for fracking. Under Pennsylvania law, if three contiguous farms lease to frackers, the gas company can drill underneath your parcel, whether you leased or not.
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anything like that again, I'm going to charge you with obstruction of justice, and I swear,
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The locals tell me that alcoholism and crime increases in fracking areas. Also traffic accidents, because of the heavy machinery using roads not meant to carry the loads and noise.
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Bail Commissioner Holloway banged his
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Okay." "Thanks, bye." Bennie left the conference room, met"
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Everyone liked a clean-cut guy, and they tended to forget that appearances were deceiving. His
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I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. --WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ACT 2, SCENE 4
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you very much, and now I'll take
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She always tried to be professional, but she'd been so professional that she'd almost killed someone.
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him, but Officer Agabe-Diaz reached him first, then everything seemed to happen at once: The mortuary assistants bumped the gurney against the doorjamb, jostling the black vinyl body bag. The uniformed officers rushed to help them as Patrick came running toward the stretcher, bursting into tears. Officer Agabe-Diaz scooped Patrick up just before he got there, then turned and handed him screaming and crying to Mary, who hugged him as tightly..
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The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.
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Melendez
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Don't you wear glasses, George?" "Not anymore. I had my eyes lasered." Can you say midlife crisis? Radial keratotomy is the new red Porsche."
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Any victory won that way would be Pyrrhic.
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Morton,
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her gratitude didn't show. "Well, here's what I did yesterday, from noon"
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Please, detective, you were saying.
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The room? Why am I not surprised?
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what's the matter?" "I'm not ready,"
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to Ned, will you. Carry on.
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they were the go-betweens, going back and forth to a
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Thank you, Your Honor." Bennie"
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But whose mother are you? Don't slip so easily into the role of being that kid's mother." "I used to be." "But you're not, anymore." "Really?" Jill's chest tightened. "What's a mother, or a stepmother? What's a family? Isn't it forever? The love doesn't stop when the legal relationship does." "No, but the obligation does. The responsibility does." Jill tried a different tack. "Okay, think about it this way. Your son Steven is going to be my..
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Suddenly, there was a noise from the front door. Dr. Dave turned away, toward the sound. And all hell broke loose. Chapter Forty-seven "NO!" Ryan bellowed, barreling into the kitchen with Pam at his heels. "No" was all Jake could whisper, horrified they were in harm's way. Ryan took a flying leap at Dave and tackled him heavily to the ground. They both yelled and grunted, struggling for the gun. Suddenly a shot fired. Pam screamed. Tear..
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gestured to an empty chair,
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Here are a few of the sources I used, and I heartily recommend them: Simon Baron-Cohen, The Science of Evil; Judith Beck, Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Louis Cozolino, The Making of a Therapist; Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths; James Fallon, The Psychopath Inside; Peter and Ginger Ross Breggin, Talking Back to Prozac; Robert D.
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Judy woke up on her back in the parking lot.
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knees, but they evaporated as the boat picked
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me. Jesus, it's all over the news, right?" Bennie"
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They say life is short, but the truth is, motherhood is short.
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Bennie knew her mother had loved her long after she was well enough to say so, though she barely remembered her mother's caring for her as a child. Bennie guessed her mother had performed the routine functions that mothers do every day, for there had been evidence of it. Bennie had won awards in elementary school, tiny pins like tie tacks that lay ignored in her jewelry box, for getting good grades and having good penmanship. She had stumbl..
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She remained standing in the empty gallery long after Jack had been
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little fucker!" Star shouted at"
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little fucker!" Star shouted at him. "No! Don't kill me! Please, God!" The dude's hands flew up to where his head got hit and he crumpled in half like a paper doll, falling to his knees on a pile of rotted wood and greasy drywall. The corner was filled with garbage spilling"
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