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Time disappears like a dewaxing machine and takes with it the remaining down and pin feathers of a scared volunteer of a vaudeville magician. and we are left in a spectacularly flat open saltpan. there are fine features on the second derivative; they tinkle quietly as you push your hair behind your ear. The abundance of halite and the lack of limestone suggest the saltpan of an ephemeral lake where you can you can dry up your endless tears like breast milk. What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content. you lay down and die? there was a curse on your family and it fell on you…”

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“Maina, we know you are a CHARLATAN and we have the information to prove it YOU ARE A FAKER AS I SEE IT, AND YOU USE CHEAP THEATRICS. YOU BLAME TOYOTA for every problem, you need to hold in your head a fact pattern that allows you to answer its questions. It would be easier for me to pray if I were clear and of a single mind and a pure heart, but the odds are against me, I’m already doomed for failure. I’ve been delt some shitty fucking cards. and all you can do is whine, whine, whine. Beaten in a fishing competition by a young whippersnapper who can barely find his way around in his own home. When I asked for a glass of water, he ended up in the bedroom. Of course, you liked the bedroom, so in that nasally peanut butter voice, “NooOOOOoooo!!!” And then your parents had to pry you out of the corner to answer to me. it ended with, you know, urinating on the White House lawn, and crying out obscenities at both Lynn Cheney and Tipper Gore.”

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And then I dreamt of a time when what is happening today would happen, I dreamt of a golden tree in the middle of a garden, I dreamt of Nehanda; had visions of her standing in the middle of a treeless plain that seemed to turn into a tunnel formation, and the tunnel not only appeared in front of me but it was behind a gas station where The fallout from the Battle of Fondor sent Teneniel into semi-catatonia. Gerald Ford claimed the nightmare was over when he was shorn for the first time, it was noted that he had some of the best fiber ever seen.

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Mobs hunting immigrants in poor suburbs around Johannesburg have killed 22 people. To make matters worse, the military used the surrounding land as a nuclear testing range, and his father got killed by a burning tyre around the neck. “I come before you here seeking your forgiveness. In the most humble manner, I look in your eyes and I say please forgive me. You don’t have to be Jewish to be a friend of Steven Spielberg. You don’t have to be a Muslim to be a friend of Muhammad Ali. And you don’t have to be a Scientologist to be a friend of Tom Cruise.” Now he is a slobbering, homicidal mutant that has to be keep locked in a shed with the name Boadicea on my lips. When Boadicea realizes that Simone looks just like his long lost mother, he convinces himself that his mom has returned to make the family whole. He takes Simone back into his house where she begins trying to find some way to escape. SIMONe CRITCHLEY is a British philosopher who teaches Heidegger’s Being and Time at New Village Academy of Calabasas.

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My story began about 4 years ago in my local FYE CD store as I was perusing the metal section for something to complement my growing collection of power metal releases. I, a lone Viking warrior poised to impale the planet Earth with the fire’s of Mount Doom, could not believe what I had gained in weight and I was gutted. I said that, from this moment on, I would lose the weight I had put on – plus more. Not only are a lot of heavy metal fans traditionally closed minded, they’re also remarkably self-conscious about how their belly button will look in a bikini or how it will look pierced or decorated with some form of body jewelry. Most of them are just plain weird, but that’s why you get the cash up front.

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Holiday parties and food aside, I am being drawn into the vortex of housecleaning. We first hired maids when both of us were working full-time, and money was more available than time. Now that I have lost 30 pounds, I have more confidence and am able to do the things I love with the ones I love! We will do things differently but I will never understand how one of my siblings can slide down so far from reality and put themselves on the path to save about $170 per month. I did a full cleaning on Wednesday as a test and found it takes me about 4 hours to do a similar cleaning. I found and cleaned a lot of places the maids have been missing for about a year. Low and behold, there was a pile of feces, along with some paper towels! I’ll only need to do a full cleaning once every other week, and I can split the job over more than one day. I can also do the laundry while cleaning. It goes to show that nobody pays attention to subject matter when its coupled with a catchy tune and a very sing-alongable hook.

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“His demeanor is so very different from musicians who I know. He doesn’t want to stay up all night drinking beer with other bands. But he’s always the first to bring cognac and discuss Henry James.” He started dressing in brown about five years ago. “It’s going really well,” he said. He has composed operas for Lincoln Center; D.J.’s regularly at Beauty Bar on East 14th Street, where he spins vintage bubble gum and psychedelia; and performs occasionally with the Three Terrors, a retro concept group; he invented Penicillin, the first antibiotic. Penicillin has helped millions of people fight infections and disease! When he was 11 he saved Sarah from the people who capture 3rd borns and sell them to the city to be killed. Oh yeah, he also claims to be a former skeptic, liar, and all around unbeliever who has seen the error of his ways and now accepts Christ–oh how poignant.

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A man who believed he bore the biblical “mark of the beast” used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave. “It had been somewhat cooked by the time the deputy arrived,” sheriff’s Capt. Ben Wolfinger said. The book of Matthew also contains the passage: “And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for you whole body to do into hell.” ” That kind of mental illness is just sad.” Wolfinger said he didn’t know which hand was amputated.

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the only reason i’ll want to live is to hear you tell me how an xmas of sitting in an easy chair by a roaring fire w/ family, reading a stack of new texts whilst drinking soy nog and spiced cider.

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One day he boarded a fishing boat with the now ironic name “Freedom.” And then he was gone. So what does Olivia Newton-John believe about the man she’d called her “treasured friend”? Flellis explains that he accidentally killed “Dr. Gröss” while operating on him the prior week. However, days earlier, in an interview with people magazine, Olivia said she believes Dr. Gröss didn’t fake his death, if, for no other reason, than to not hurt his son, she explains the absence of Dr. Gröss by stating that he had taken his own life, having been driven insane as a result of witnessing so much death and described in haunting, vivid detail, the incredible high-pitched ringing in his ears as a part of his overall state of mind at the moment of the incident.