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In exchange for our labor, we would each be given a new set of clothes.

It had taken Thursdale seven years to form this fine talent.

The students usually didn’t look up to see who was serving them.

Some people you come across you come to love. He was one of them.

Despite seeing the other knockoffs, I hoped my dress would be perfect.

More and more whiskey was required to knock out the elephant.

Here’s the part where you pledge devotion until death, I told myself.

We looked at each other beneath a London sky, on a Zeppelin night.

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How did I ever survive? Maybe I didn’t. Maybe I died back there.

He tossed her over his head like a ballerina, one rough hand on each hip.

My country neither interested me nor inspired any sense of fealty.

“She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”

I uttered words I will regret to my last breath, which is already near.

Her lips had the scent of the first kiss, and a thirst for justice.

He said, every night you close the store, I watch you walk to your car.

Half the women around here have a husband in some kind of fix.

What was he, twenty, no, twenty-two years younger than me.

It all started at Phillips Andover Academy when he was fourteen.

Over salad, the Frenchman asked me about work and what I did.

Every voice an epitaph, and then a little tune from the neighbor’s yard.

Loved this little portal to my past so much that I went looking for others.

“Some men’re like that. They have to see what they’re missing.”

Darla has come to the monument to fight against her mind.

He picked up a fairy disguised as a go-go dancer and brought her home.

Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.

Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.

I wanted to ask what her secret was but I was too busy knitting socks.

I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention.