
Not Totally Surprising

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“She also had a definite sense that here was a man on the verge of declaring himself, declaring his affections. She had been in this situation before, and she could tell that in this one respect, he was not departing from the playbook that all men apparently had.”
“Savannah remembered a book she had read years before when she was a little girl in which the heroine had tossed her curls. She thought of doing that now, but didn’t do anything. But the way she stood there at the doorway looked as though she just had tossed them.”
Introduction: So we have every reason to believe that we are about to witness a massive demographic shift in the United States. I am talking about what amounts to a large number of refugee columns, ...
“The time until Sunday morning went by so slowly that it ached, and after she spoke with him about meeting the next day, that time flew by so quickly there were a few moments she thought she felt the breeze in her hair.”
Letter to the Editor: Thank you SO much for this post. You are the ONLY person, let alone authority figure, that I have seen who has not condemned Chauvin (though he may be fully ...
“Thomas felt like one of the stones from the brook had somehow made it into his stomach, one of the rounded ones the size of a couple of fists.”
Introduction: A lot of people are being distracted by the stupid element in all of this. They see, for example, that the Minneapolis City Council actually voted to defund their police department, or the mayor of New York City saying that he wants to cut funding for their policing back, and so on, and they …
“As one Puritan put it, they sin till they’re out of breath.”
