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In times like these, I think it's a good policy to hope for the best, but expect the worst.
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It was an earworm, and she was certain Clint had deliberately planted it in her subconscious.
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pulling free.
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cafe, and dozens of people wandering
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It was a closely held family
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dumber than a box full of rocks.
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I went to college at Florida State, which is where I got my interior design degree, and after college, I moved down to Miami. We moved back here a few years ago." "Miami. Is that where you met your"
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phone number to Booker
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Maggy's diagnosis earlier in the year with juvenile onset type 1 diabetes had thrown them
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Salad
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Saturday evening, Riley was sprawled out on the flowered chintz sofa in the library, engrossed in a book she estimated she'd first read when she was Maggy's age. It was a Helen MacInnes international espionage novel and, even without the spidery handwriting proclaiming it the property of Earline Riley on the flyleaf, she knew it had been her grandmother's.
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A dowdy, depressed dwarf.
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She's got the face of an angel and the soul of a pit bull-piranha hybrid.
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somehow, I must have given you my dog, Poppy, instead of Shaz." "Thanks a lot," Zoey said. "This damn dog has been barfing for ten minutes. She barfed all over the car, herself, me, it's everywhere. It's disgusting."
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Wait until my wife sees this." He chortled. "She's said all along that we should just get rid of the darned cupboard doors. She even showed me a picture in one of her magazines, but I told her she was crazy. Just shows you how much I know." He"
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It made perfect sense to me. My whole life I'd gone along with somebody else's plans. Not wanting to rock the boat and put myself first. After all, most of the time I didn't know what my own plans were. But the need for my own dream was screaming to get out of me.
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clawing at my heart all these years.
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Everything was in order, although coated in dust, cobwebs and what looked like an entire village of dead bugs. A pegboard held his saws, chisels, hammers, vises and screwdrivers. He'd used old wooden cigar boxes with tiny knobs screwed to each to construct drawers for a homemade cubby holding a wide assortment of nails, screws, bolts and washers. The power tools were neatly arranged on the wooden shelves beside the bench. An old nail barrel..
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Sometimes you have to trust your heart, too. You give what you think the other person needs, and hope they know that you're doing it out of love.
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the sweetness had gone so quickly from her
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Maybe he was. Maybe he had something to smile about these days.
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tiddled.
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For Ben, watching the bad guys blow up buildings and try to shoot down airliners just never got old.
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Our eighty-year-old bookkeeper slash office manager. I love Miss Joyce to pieces, but I seriously doubt she's interested in starting a new relationship.
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something?" "Relax," Lizzie said. "Granny never mentioned it. But she kept a scrapbook. She clipped all the newspaper articles about the disappearance of ... what was his name again?" "Russell Strickland." As Josephine whispered the name, she"
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