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  1. Haven Kimmel _ Something Rising

    Cassie got in her truck.She didnt own much , but it was all there with her.A vintage Balabushka pool cue won fair & square; a backpackfrom a Boy Scout packed with Laura,s letters.a phone number in Biloxi.Her tools ,her boots ,her clothes,some books;she had a .22 pistol ,a Ruger Single-Six,strapped to her ankle.She had three hundred thousand in cash in a metal box behind her seat . She drove away .
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  2. Haven Kimmel _ A Girl Named Zippy

    There are people in this world so perfect that the fact of them feels like a personal gift,
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  3. Haven Kimmel _ A Girl Named Zippy

    Sometimes the side of the house would exert a strange and supernatural magnetic force upon my body, which would cause me to fly up against it, face first, and stick there.
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  4. Haven Kimmel _ A Girl Named Zippy

    I'm never reading poetry again unless it's by James Whitcomb Riley!" And I went storming out of the house to try and shake off the injury done to me with words.
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  5. Haven Kimmel _ A Girl Named Zippy

    There is a kind of wildness that grows up among people who have gathered in the dark, and we all felt a little giddy.
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  6. Haven Kimmel _ A Girl Named Zippy

    Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching-bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait till you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan." Until
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  7. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    But I loved him, loved him, a little girl is helpless against her love for a brother. I climbed on him, harassed him, begged him to carry me, take me with him wherever he was going. From a distance he seemed both cold and receding, a man whose most familiar feature was his back as he walked away as fast as he could.
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  8. Haven Kimmel _ A Girl Named Zippy

    never would. In short, he was what it meant to be a father and a man in 1971. Up against his power I could see none of his failings.
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  9. Haven Kimmel _ A Girl Named Zippy

    all men of a certain age tell this story, and they give themselves away by always using the same fruit. I have yet to meet the father who will look his child in the eye and say, "I was happy just to get some seedless grapes." But
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  10. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    I was born an outcast in an ancient and subtle way; I was conceived out of some grief or darkness and would be made to pay a price for it.
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  11. Haven Kimmel _ A Girl Named Zippy

    I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp. Also
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  12. Haven Kimmel _ A Girl Named Zippy

    Well, I'm here to tell you: I've seen women passionately devoted to men who couldn't pile bricks, and whole families of slack-jawed nose pickers held together by "love," not to mention all those people who curl up at night with dogs that have gunk running out of their eyes, dogs who earlier peed where they were about to walk and spent ten minutes licking their own wormy butts.
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