Finished Folds (201—220)
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3My father, uninterested in sticking around for the next life saving maneuver, had stumbled back into his old truck and swerved off toward the liquor store.
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4Every time I turned it off was a chance for it to die peacefully, only to be revived again by the jagged jaws of my father’s jumper cables.
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2I didn’t want to get out of the car and go back in the house. My rust colored El Camino’s battery was in the fifteenth round and was against the ropes pissing blood.
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1Her smile was as infectious as the plague, even to the boys who were told by their fathers not to ever, ever bring an Indian girl home. I didn’t care about any of that. One kiss
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2Her black hair and matching eyes were almost as hypnotic as the dark brown legs that appeared beneath her denim skirt as reliably as a welfare check on the last day of every month
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3She was more attractive than most girls at my school and probably gave me the time of day because I was the only non-douche that would do the same to her. That’s the kind of thing
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3he Tic Tacs left on the dresser in my room represented a vital part of my first date with Melissa Rainwater. Melissa was an Indian, now called Native Americans by sensitive types
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4My attendance at the dentist’s office had been less than stellar and had left me with a few rotten molars and rancid breath that had put even my dog and me at odds.
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4My first crimes twenty-one years ago were the beginning of my quest for elegance in larceny, but I didn’t know it at the time. I didn’t really hate old Mrs. O’Malley as much as I
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1George Michael was standing behind him in a pair of reflective sunglasses, the "Faith" jeans and his classic 5 day shadow. He did the Craig shuffle and smacked Kirk Cameron on the
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4mercy double tap all toy pets. When he'd finished ridding the world of these poor abused creatures, he'd take his own life. It was a lofty goal for a former pet mini-pig, but he
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2She took the thin blade from her back pocket and cut around the blood stain. Digging in deep, she searched for a bullet, hoping to scrape the lead, but not too much. Her jaws
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4He proposed and offered me everything I've ever wanted. Security, comfort, never challenged, never worried. I turned him down. I wouldn't want a guy who wants a woman like that.
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0The couple gave up their baby. They were working in the US from China and the baby had been born with potential brain damage. China would allow only one, and this one was broken.
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2She was unsure of her date and even more unsure about being outside, so she peed on his heated leather seats and waited while it cured in, insurance against future dates.
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4She was a porcelain doll in motion, warm brown ringlets clinging to her shoulders in the sun of the bay window. The smile drained from her face at her mother's return. No amount
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4"Tell me again, this time in reverse chronological order, how you managed to walk backward through the entire maze. I want to know every step, back to taking off your clothes this
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1Defenseless kittens lazed in the sun outside the second story window. They'd made their way up the precarious awning to the ledge in hopes that the mouse farm's air conditioner
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8it was the second pair of bose headphones that had been stolen from me at work in a month. Rage consumed me, but I bought a third pair. Inside, I rubbed poison ivy, peanut oil and
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4I was on hold for fifty-seven minutes before she came back and asked me for my information again. I told her calmly & politely my name and info. "Please hold" she said. I cracked.