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Donna

We’re not really an emotional family except for rage and betrayal, where the scores have historically been off the charts.

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Sang

This isn’t about you. For now, it’s about them; your children, your wife.

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Dolores

The Divine ignites flutters in the heart in rhythm. Asking all of me, like a deep well of water.

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Grant

That was then, and this is now; but some things still don’t change.

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Robin

I bought this house, my first house, almost nineteen years ago. Almost immediately, I began shopping for its replacement.

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Jon

You would be surprised how few people stop to help you when your car is engulfed in flames in the middle of the Pacific Coast Highway on a holiday weekend.

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Monica

She walks barefoot on the stony beach. With each step, she aims for either a big flat stone or a grouping of smaller stones, covering at least the space of a foot.

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Heather

Years ago, there was another who told me he was really into girls who hurt themselves.

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Ritzel

It seemed like a good idea less than 2 hours ago when we were laughing over drinks until we were actually walking through the dimly lit parking lot towards the North Tower.

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Helen

Plastered across the sofa like stretched-out taffy, she could hear the unmistakeable voice of her neighbor filter into the living room despite the hum of the ceiling fan.

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David

We monsters, you may not realize, are an oft-misunderstood bunch.

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Seth

You must be terribly stressed after my ‘incident’ last month and I’m sorry to think what a bundle of nerves you must be…

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Helen

There was this one time when I had to return a book at Borders.

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Joseph

That first big kiss is so important. That big impression you never get a second chance to repeat.

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Monica

“We grow old rightly,” she said as she arranged the peonies in a vase.

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Mike

I didn’t know it was gonna be like this. i guess when you least expected, things happen. you’re not even my type.

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Robin

My yoga teacher is also a psychic, astrologer and reader of auras. This seems unfair.

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Sandra

“How is this even my life?,” Steve Allele wondered as he surveyed the teeming, hivelike crowd stretched out before him.

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Vicki

This is not the way I pictured it. How did I picture it?

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