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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
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