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I wished it didn't have to face north but this is like a tiny scale model of my dream house
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He looked too stunned to speak, it was Ava who said, "But you wore those sandals, I couldn't have lost an aluminum there, even if I had been carrying one around, and I don't think I've ever carried an aluminum on my person," Ava said
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"Have you kept all my old paperwork together?" she asked
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"I thought I bored you with my stories of Zharvai
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Some of my friends bought a fabrication shop down in the Gengee, this is the best imitation of an antique ocean racer from our country that we can build
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see any change in my situation? Does He care about me?
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[Was this question designed to play on my short-term memory weakness?]
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speculative basis so they could appreciate my continued “normality”
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Next up then – and with my expectations now slightly lowered – came
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Despite my best efforts, I was still called in for an interview with the manager
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my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have
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I have consulted my New York lawyers on this; sorry, make that my new,
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Actual y, I have now revised my thoughts on this matter as:
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As I had left my Cat Woman suit at home that day, I natural y assumed that these comments were aimed elsewhere
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I repeated the reasoning behind my wearing it and added that I
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my demeanour – what this says about your average Job Seeker I simply
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“And we’d love to hear you talk about it on the show,” he grasps my hand and squeezes it
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I recorded our conversation, as has become my habit with all visitors:
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Gen: 20:11: And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake
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Gen: 20:12: And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother;
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and she became my wife
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” I have my own paraphrase of this; “You’re not where you work”
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The day was fine and warm but I was wearing a wool hat to cover my scars – rather odd in the circumstances so I was
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"Learning Kulai's business, taking over his math, and for the first time in my life, actually being an asset on the social scene
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She whips me with a towel, knocking the brim of my hat halfway off my head
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The beer turns sour in my mouth
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On the day that I die I’m going to take with me what's in my head
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I realized that, God forbid, if that happens sooner rather than later, the information that I have in my head would not be left behind for my children or anyone else
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I’m telling you, the thought of leaving this earth without leaving this information for my children was terrifying to me
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It was more motivating than anything else I've ever done in my life
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I also realized it wasn't just for my children, it was for you and your
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Me, wanting a better life not only for myself and my children, but me
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I really wanted to try this technique during my regular hospital consultations but the exposure time would
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” She pours more beer into my glass and pushes it at me
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Vera’s face turns red like she wants to grab my head and punt it
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He’s not my father
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A towel thwaps against the back of my head
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I pull it off my hat and toss it back to her
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"I've lived most of my life here
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I barely remember Earth and when I try to picture it in my mind today I notice the fields covered with ribbonleaves and archwoods shading the houses
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I say the word 'palm tree' today but my mind brings up the picture of a nullbreak hangleaf
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John: 14:23: Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love
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Heb: 13:6: So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my
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will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness
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In the end, my story took about 7000 words to relay, thanks for listening and would you shut the door behind you on your way out?
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metaphor; in my case for the “omnipresent and shallow
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I pull on my ear flaps and waddle out with my case of beer, nearly tripping on the first step through the door
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"I can do the dates in my head now, I helped the geneticist write that
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this as the truth, believe and practice it in my life until it
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commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with
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Mal: 2:5: My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me,
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"Even with RNAcid enhancements I barely have the geography of the Highlands in my head
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"Yeah, I looked up that fiction you mentioned, 'Frankensteined back to life' is my best memory of the words you used
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My age _____ divided by 3 = ______ years I’ve slept
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My original view [since revised!] was that “if you can’t give it away you might as well give up!” I also wanted to distribute copies to gain feedback as family and friends are not always the best critics
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I clear my throat
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I grabbed my hat and coat on the way out
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I wasn’t planning on having drinks with these two, not if my dad was waiting for me tonight
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My earliest memories of my father were of him being away a lot on a case in Anchorage
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My parents never told me about this, of course, until I was fifteen, but I remember Mom being really afraid that Dad wouldn’t come home during those days
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When Mom finally told me about the case, I remember just nodding and walking to my room to just stare at the ceiling and think
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My soul was read into this empty brain, there was never an atom in this body that didn't come from food this body ate here on the planet Kassidor
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This is my third life, though I was made from a copy of my second life, I didn't die
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My sister is still there and we sometimes keep in touch
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"That's her story, that's my sister
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Gen: 17:4: As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shall be a father of many nations
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Gen: 17:7: And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an
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With my memory, I find myself playing this game quite regularly
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Over the years, my parents found that they could speak freely about this previously obscured time of my life
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He got picked on in school as a kid for stuttering, so my parents told me never to pick on kids, which is fine, but their reasoning was more out of fear that the kid might “snap,” not because it was the right thing to do
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My parents taught to treat women with respect, that you should always be chivalrous and never hit a woman
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I tried to be a good person like my dad was
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But all the while, it astounded me how this serial killer turned out to be such a strong factor in the manner in which my parents raised me
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my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in
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activity? How can I use my time more effectively in order to create and live the life I want? How about those little times that we talked about, like putting something in the microwave
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I know I shouldn’t have let this get to me—my parents were just trying to do what was best for me—but it still bothered me that my life growing up was so intertwined with a murderer like Robert Hansen
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This is where my Mom died
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This is where my Dad is killing himself
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I was wearing an old 1970’s watch [a relic of my col ecting days] and
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I lean to pick it up, but Dad puts a hand on my shoulder
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I unholster the revolver that he passed down to me when I moved out on my own
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“There’s a zombie in my house
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They sat here above Jorma's head at my table all the time we lived here
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there was definitely something else strange but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it
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I have no wish to “paddle in a pool of pathos” but this really describes my current medical situation so wel
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have received] Chemotherapy! Wel , I know that my memory can be a
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” My hands shake
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I look to the two men hunched on the ground with the churning realization that there’s an innocent man dying in my dad’s home
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With the insignia from his uniform he has the money to finance a family to raise and train a child to be my shadow, a child who has been trained to do nothing but zero in on those papers
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So I quit my job, I did it, I quit my job yesterday and I’m going to use those 8 hours effectively
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Certainly, most of my original
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What have other patients in my position done?
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My dad is…
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boarded the train and found, to my surprise, that my consultant was
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He meets my eyes
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The dog’s wound healed and my accomplishment was celebrated
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Along the way, external events have had a habit of mirroring my own
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employees, for my business? What would I have to do in the company
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“I don’t want that in my life, I want this in my life,” then they would have to say, “How would I need to be, who would I need to be, what would I