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… and chattering on, adding to the national inventory of complaints about the heat. These two—the oldest and the … the maid about their day and the small, unforgivable betrayals of friends. Her sisters still called her by her first … back when the government sponsored everyone’s university studies, she had left for England to study mining engineering, …
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… Time and time again I’ve said those people need some common sense. If that place catches fire, it will spread to … and strong, the kind of man who took pride in being a soldier and serving his country, who liked the idea of war, of … Debbie should be taking good care of him, and it disappoints me that I should even have to doubt her. Rosemary. …
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… had her purse in one hand, a Tumi bag with ingenious inside compartments that meant she could never find anything she … All her anger at herself about letting the beautiful flower die had been misplaced in the letter she wrote him, snail … “The election. He’d heard what some of Clinton’s talking points were going to be and was passing them on. He said it …
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… good guys and Papaw was the one we went up against. During commercials we’d try and guess what they’d do on TV. It was pretty … was a buddy, he got hisself killed. The woman hardly ever died. Papaw said that made me lucky to be a girl. I couldn’t …
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… Pastrana insisted that you have plenty of room, so you’re comfortable, so you can practice without distraction.” “Yes, … change in the Cali of his childhood. Caleñans would sooner die than part with the fruits of their labors—unless asked … live in the car trunk. Idle time playing both between salsa sessions, late nights in discotheques, domino games. …
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… especially on the road, my brother and I were a private audience to a nearly carefree Mom. On our drives to Memphis, … the crowd and drift into the blur of bodies, to disappear completely. Joyelle was waiting for us, cross-legged on a … day, where he wore his best suits and carried a locked briefcase and met with military officials and aerospace …