| 21. The Online Romance - Yard's Sale Ii |
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Come ye people, come ye friends both faithless and devout, from every neighbr'n town. Wrap your fingers in my belt, hoist away your doubt and turn me...
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| 22. The Online Romance - I Drank Only Water |
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My lost love invited me to share a meal, you see. I'd supply the vegetables and she'd provide the tofu and the tea. Her memory still haunted me, but...
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| 23. The Online Romance - Neighbor |
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My neighbor is a playboy. I've got mental pictures of all the things he's enjoyed and I find them all replaying in my head when I hear the noises...
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| 24. The Online Romance - Quite Like |
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I was the perfect martyr for that mission, in plainclothes uncut hair. While shaking hands, accepting the position, I factored the bus fare — and...
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| 25. The Online Romance - Leaves Know Nothing Of Love |
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Hitching a ride southbound, unconscious of direction; settling in, trapped by a breeze beneath the windshield wiper for the long ride home: a...
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| 26. The Online Romance - Obey Your Pillow |
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On this most cherished morn you opened a can of corn and twisted out the blinds, revealing a room adorned with packages to wrap. There's room at the...
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| 27. The Online Romance - Ellen O'dauver |
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Your breath of sweet and sour, I can smell it in the air. It serves as a substitute for perfume you don't wear. There are geraniums in a child-size...
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| 28. The Online Romance - Juneau, Alaska Is For Lovers |
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On some steps we sat, looking out over the skylined part of the city where I'd never been. You were in dark and specs — it just increased your...
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| 29. The Online Romance - Conclude Your Rant |
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My decision was headlong when I wrote the world off with a swipe, making clear my judgement through a permanent red marker's swipe. All I am...
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| 30. The Online Romance - Second Chance |
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I waited under cover of the moon. I waited there with fifteen jokers, hymnals out of tune, vocalizing of first loves and second tries. I waited for...
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| 31. The Online Romance - Cleanup Crew Of One |
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Up some steps blocked by a folding chair, he sits slouched as he feigns that he does not care. His throat inflects to all his people who are waiting...
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| 32. The Online Romance - Fork Number Two |
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Frank's molars are covered in cake. He's eating enough for ten and coming right back again. Tables are cleared in his wake. "How does he do it?" they...
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| 33. The Online Romance - Mower And Rake |
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With your mower and your rake you're working on the lawn, cleaning up on a Tuesday or a Saturday. It's a routine that I've learned to count upon. In...
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| 34. The Online Romance - Hey Abraham |
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Hey Abraham, do you remember when I'd count you all out, put Scotch tape on the ends, then stack you in piles which trickled up in tiny triangles? I...
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| 35. The Online Romance - Kayla's Song |
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While the sun is out, drain the water spout to the basin. A spider crawls about. Your mom brings the crates in, those yellow crates in. While you're...
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| 36. The Online Romance - Pretend I'm Michelle Lamanet |
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I was stuck inside on the night it snowed in the middle of August — yeah, it piled up in the road — and I was staring out the window. I walked...
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| 37. The Online Romance - Suffering For The Smile |
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While the others swerved, Rick remained reserved, as these things are, as these things go. He thought it was funny how, while the rest were in a row,...
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| 38. The Online Romance - Twitch |
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There's a little squirrel dancing on the telephone wire. Were he a human boy, you'd just watch him though you'd know he'd retire in a quick trip and...
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| 39. The Online Romance - So Much About John |
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If he could take a pencil and write out all those wrongs, I'm still not sure that he would do it. If he could press record and wipe out all those...
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| 40. The Online Romance - Trying To Take A Stand |
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Where we're going as a country, I can't believe. I can't conceive of it anymore, and in that unknowing I feel alone with my telephone on the tile...
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