F if anyone ever writes "I woke up and it was all a dream" at the end of a story. She says it violates the deal between reader and writer, that it's a cop-out, it's the Boy Who Cried Wolf. But every single morning we really do wake up and it really was all a dream.
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MATT DIEHL We saw the aerial photos this morning and that's when it really hit home, the devastation, ... I thi... JAMES DENTON From the age of three to 15, I wanted to be a ballerina and trained really, really hard. Then I had ... KIESZA HELEN MIRREN LINDA GRANT INA GARTEN BRUCE COVILLE The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn’t do what I wanted ... PETE HAMILL When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like that, you j... KEVYN ADAMS It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself ... CHRIS KRAUS It's terrible, I know, but I will admit I was a really lazy kid. It was Bronte who would wake me... CATE CAMPBELL DAMIEN HIRST J.M. BARRIE ARIANA GRANDE SARAH J. MAAS GARY NEVILLE It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel d... 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