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Book: She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    He's no John Walton.
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  4. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    . . .Since we were only going to the best place on the Earth, where every single minute of every day was different and filled with promise, what the heck difference did it make what we were gonna do
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  5. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    He sang like an angel, he was faithful to God and he waited honorablyfor the wife he believed God chose for him. He made two daughters whoshone like mirrors in the direct sun; he blazed his path with a scytheand his broad shoulders, and he was who he chose to be, which is thehardest and bravest thing a man can do. He looked at us, his parents,his sisters, his whole crooked family, and he flexed his jaw muscles,packed up his truck, and drove away.
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  6. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    She had taken her vows and then they had taken her, and the forces amassed against her were greater than love, greater than obligation. They were elemental, heavy as a dead planet.
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  7. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    My favorite was Love Is...Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to apologize for something, Love seemed to just fly out the window.
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  8. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    I couldn't for the life of me figure out how long a person had to live, or how good she had to be, to get her hands on some treasure.
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  9. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    You could buy individual boxes of detergent and fabric softener, even bleach, and there was nothing that made me grind my teeth with pleasure more than a real thing shrunken down small. The first time my dad showed me a toothache kit from a box of equipment from the Korean War and I saw the tiny cotton balls {the size of very small ball bearings}, I nearly swooned. "Let me hold one of those," I said, almost mad at him. He gave it to me with a tiny pair of tweezers. I let it float in my palm a moment and then made him take it back. Miniaturization was a gift from God, no doubt about it, and there it was, right in a vending machine in the place we used to do our laundry.
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  10. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    I sensed weeping and salvation in the air, two of my least favorite things.
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  11. Haven Kimmel _ She Got Up Off the Couch: And

    My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone.
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