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jerked on the ends of their cords. "We have kept our promise. Now you keep yours. Help us, and ... Page 112 from Issue 80 I remember our tour of the long room of tanks, the small pink masses that ... open, too close to mine, not sidelong now, too dark, too deep, and the flecks of light are the stars, ...
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awaiting your verdict," Anderson said. "What do you think of all this? Should I walk the ... did I already say that to you? It's odd how we allow our, selves to be disappointed so many ... him. We'd met at a record store where we were working in the summer. The kind of job recent ...
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just as we catch up to our mothers. Sinking into the softening asphalt, we four stride forward as if to ... merge with our images, closing in from the plate glass window of a furniture store across the street, in ... dollars!" "And that's not counting my work. Well, it makes you wonder.... Turn, ...
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