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Funny how the world shifts when you’re in the same space with your friends. The air is energized, the light is warmer.
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I am out of ideas and need to conserve my energy so I can freak out more efficiently.
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Therapy," she said. "It works.""I've tried it. They always end up crying. I think I've helped them have some real breakthrough moments.
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I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.
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It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.
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Few words are more chilling when put together than make friends.
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the famous Mr. Ellingham leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees and bringing his large, suntanned hands together in a knot. Dottie had never seen anyone with a suntan in March before. This, more than anything,was the most powerful sign of Mr. Ellingham’s wealth. He could have the sun itself.
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Dawn broke over Ellingham Academy in a swirl of rose pink going into a bloodless blue. Stevie watched the newly risen sun come up over the Great House like a celestial game of peekaboo.
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I’d love to be a tabletop in Paris, where food is art and life combined in one, where people gather and talk for hours. I want lovers to meet over me. I’d want to be covered in drops of candle wax and breadcrumbs and rings from the bottom of wineglasses. I would never be lonely, and I would always serve a good purpose.
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