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calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear...
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there was a time when these weren't memories.
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He says when you're smoking a cigarette with someone, and you have a lighter, you should light their cigarette first. But if you have matches, you should light your cigarette first, so you breathe in the 'harmful sulfur' instead of them. He says it's the polite thing to do. He also says it's bad luck to have "three on a match." He heard that from his uncle who fought in Vietnam. Something about how three cigarettes was enough time for the e..
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cigarette-lighting
cigarette-lore
matches
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Y en ese momento, juro que eramos infinitos.
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Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.
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There are other people who have it a lot worse
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I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.
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It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why. Especially since I know that if they went to another school, the person who had their heart broken would have had their heart broken by somebody else, so why does it have to be so personal?
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After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.
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And then Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.
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I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.
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So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party
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strange
snow
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I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.
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But at one point, Craig was talking about something, and Sam turned to me and smiled. It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.
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My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.
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I spent all night working on it, and I hope Patrick likes it as much as I do. Especially the second side. I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad. I hope it can be that for him.
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The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach
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When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek. He wiped my lip print off with his palm and gave me a look. He doesn't like the boys in the family to touch him. But I'm very glad that I did it anyway in case he dies. I never got to do that with my Aunt Helen.
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I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away. And disappear. I know that's wrong because it's my responsibility, and I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.
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I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the "I love you" was it."
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We are who we are for a lot of reasons
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And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess he didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened.
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I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.
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To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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Anyway, Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel, Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves. When we hit the tunnel, all the sound got scooped up into a vacuum, and it was replaced by a song on the tape player. A beautiful song called "Landslide." When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes yo..
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Quiero tanto a mi madre... No me importa si es cursi decirlo. Creo que en mi proximo cumpleanos voy a comprarle un regalo. Creo que esa deberia ser la tradicion. El hijo recibe regalos de todo el mundo y el compra uno para su madre, ya que ella tambien estuvo alli. Creo que seria bonito.
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in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them.
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on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will."
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I'm caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
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And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.
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philosophy
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It's too bad you're not gay. Then again, if you were gay, I would never date you. You're a mess.
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and let the quiet put things where they're supposed to be
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Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.
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When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn't a bad sad at all. It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
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It's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
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My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed. I thought about him going into my mom's room when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the one to work in a mill. I don't know if that'..
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The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.
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It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you."
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Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves. When we hit the tunnel, all the sound got scooped up into a vacuum, and it was replaced by a song on the tape player. A beautiful song called "Landslide." When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder..
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I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be." Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.[pp.28]"
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I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.
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The only perspective is to really be there.
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was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy.
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My sister said Mary Elizabeth is suffering from low self-esteem, but I told her that she said the same thing about Sam back in November when she started dating Craig, and Sam is completely different. Everything can't be low self-esteem, can it? My sister tried to clarify things. She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a "superior position" that she wouldn't need if she was confident about herself. Sh..
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