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I know they have palm trees in Southern California. I mean I'm not a complete moron, I've watched 90210, and everything.
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There's no such thing as crazy. There's no such thing as normal, either.
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Here at Shenanigans Neighborhood Bar and Grill, we don't put up with actual shenanigans.
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If you have the right shoes, you can do anything.
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Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world,
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It's like I've struck a blow for dweebs everywhere, or something.
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That's why the savvy bride purchases wedding insurance. Like travel insurance, wedding insurance will guarantee that you don't lose the entirety of your deposits on things like venues, cakes, photographers, food suppliers, wedding limos, flowers, honeymoon, even your gown...
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as "a general endorsement of the exploitative colonization tactics of the Spanish. Though Junipero Serra was known to have argued on behalf of the property rights and economic entitlement of converted Native Americans, he consistently advocated against their right to self-governance, and was a staunch supporter of corporal punishment, appealing to the Spanish government for the right to flog Indians." When Doc had finished this particular l..
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how many ghosts I was going to encounter. That Serra guy had to have a bunch of Native Americans mad at him--particularly considering that corporal punishment thing--and I hadn't any doubt I was going to encounter all of them. And yet, when my mom and I walked through the school's wide front archway into the courtyard around which the Mission had been constructed, I didn't see a single person who looked as if he or she didn't belong there. ..
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To keep your marriagebrimming, With love in the weddingcup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden
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I had the loveliest pony when I was your age. I called him Zip. He ate apples straight out of my hand. I'm deathly allergic to horse hair, of course, and wept buckets of tears every time he was near, but it was worth it. I loved him so.
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But one thing you can't change, unlike your hair or your shoes, is other people. Only they can do that. Sadly, they almost never do. But there's always hope.
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content...it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to confusion. --Rene Daumal (1908-1944), French poet and critic
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To: Mel Fuller From: jerrylives@freemail.com Subject: Dinner You got it. I'll make reservations for eight. I hope you know what you're doing, however, letting me choose the restaurant. I am very partial to entrails, you know. John To: jerrylives@freemail.com From: Mel Fuller Subject: I don't believe you You're just trying to scare me. I grew up on a farm. We had entrails on toast every morning for breakfast. Mel To: Mel Fuller From: jerr..
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his wagon to a star. He still thinks he's the star. And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at least some of the time." Oh!"
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Why don't you go to the drugstore right now, get an early pregnancy test, then go up to your apartment and take it before you go back to work?
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suddenly up and died. Really.
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He knew Carolina de Silva.
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Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.
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expounding
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Still, when someone who is mistreated in their home travels very far and under horrible conditions to get to yours, shouldn't you at least offer them shelter and something to eat and drink until they sort things out? It seems like common courtesy to me.
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The wonderful, amazing, but occasionally distasteful and sometimes even horrifying world where most people are incredibly decent and well meaning, but occasionally you do encounter someone who is going to try to use you, or even abuse you, and when that happens, there isn't always going to be a bodyguard--or parent--around to rescue you.
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That's them," Gavin whispers. He grabs his reloader. "The pansies."
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Now?" Cooper looks back at me with a joyous grin. "Now we live happily ever after."
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Family wasn't just the people who had the same blood as you coursing through their veins. Family was people who needed you. Family was people who had nothing when you had everything. You had to do what was right by them. You had to, even if doing so broke your heart.
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But the most amazing thing is the sight I'm looking at right now, and I don't need the binoculars to see it either: Michael wearing nothing but board shorts as he lies in the hammock across from mine, reading a book on microprocessing (I do hope the micros and the processors end up happily ever after at the end)
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You've got to show them that by expressing themselves creatively through singing, songwriting, and performing, they can be whoever they want to be . . . not someone who takes off her clothes on top of a pool table for beer, not someone who can be bought and sold, not some sexual object for a man's desire, but a strong, tough businesswoman and artist.
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I'll just go at my own pace. Nice and easy. Here we go. There, see? I'm doing it. I'm running! Hey, look at me! I'm running! I'm-- Okay, well, that's enough of that. Whew. I mean, a girl could hyperventilate from doing that. And seriously, it's my first day. Don't want to overdo it. Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overreact or anything, but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled f..
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Or there's peer tutoring. Oh my god. I'm tutoring the cutest little second grader right now. I totally taught her how to stay within the lines with her eyeshadow.
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humor
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Each caress leaving my nerve endings feeling as tingly as if they'd just been kissed by a shooting star, landing on my skin and leaving it as glistening as a newly formed galaxy.
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I staggered into the bathroom to change into my pj's - hey, I was pretty sure Jesse wasn't spying on me, but he still hadn't told me how he'd died, so I wasn't taking any chances. He could have been hanged, you know, for Peeping Tomism, which I believed happened occasionally a hundred and fifty years ago.
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And every camera in the room turned to focus on my horror-stricken, blood-drained face.
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One. Two. Three. Blink.
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every heterosexual boy--and probably some gay ones, too, so look out, because that's just going to end in disaster--you ever meet is going to fall madly in love with you. He may not admit it, but it's true. So you have to take responsibility for that and not do things to encourage him--unless, of course, you want him to fall in love with you. Because it's cruel to play with boys' emotions in that way, because no matter what anyone else says..
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Instead of being wakened to the sound of birdsong, like princesses in books, I was wakened to the sound of Rommel shrieking as Fat Louie beat him senseless for getting into his bowl of Fancy Feast.
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to the Future: If Michael J. Fox doesn't get his parents together by the prom, he might not ever be BORN!!!!!!!!! Proving the importance of the prom from both a societal as well as a BIOLOGICAL point of view!
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How about y'all take a seat now, and let's get right to business,' Muffy says as she tucks her cream-colored skirt beneath her in a ladylike manner. We all do as she suggested and take a seat, with the exception of Special Agent Lancaster, who declares he'd prefer to stand. I suppose if he sat down, the stick up his butt would lodge so deeply into his brain that he would instantly expire, and then we'd have another corpse on our hands, so i..
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we'll save a lot on child care, since professors only work about three hours a week, so Tadd can stay home with them.
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Breakups are hard," I say. "But they get a little bit easier every day, until one day you meet someone who makes you forget all about that other person, and you realize that breakup was the best thing that ever happened to you."
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Lots of people go through life not having the slightest idea what names to put in the blanks on their "Who Am I?" work sheets, and they aren't bothered in the least by it." --
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I guess I should explain. I'm not exactly your typical sixteen-year-old girl. Oh, I seem normal enough, I guess. I don't do drugs, or drink, or smoke-well, okay, except for that one time Sleepy caught me. I don't have anything pierced, except my ears, and only once on each earlobe. I don't have any tattoos. I've never dyed my hair. Except for my boots and leather jacket, I don't wear an excessive amount of black. I don't even wear dark fing..
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suze-simon
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whatever it is that happens to people after they're dead. Rejoicing in heaven, or burning in hell, or being reincarnated, or ascending another plane of consciousness, or whatever.
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Today Rommel had on a mink bolero jacket. I am not even joking. It was dyed lavender to match the one slung across Grandmere's shoulders.
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But maybe kissing was enough. Maybe kissing was the only thing that mattered, anyway. Maybe kissing could overcome the whole vampire/basketball thing.
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