She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.
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JONATHAN FRANZEN It's hard for a girl that short to see the floor as well as she does. Maybe she is small, but her pa... MARIAH DUNHAM Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel u... LAUREN KATE If she had not been willing to take some responsibility, we feel confident she could be held crimina... ATTORNEY NANCE If she had not been willing to take some responsibility, we feel confident she could be held crimina... ATTORNEY WES NANCE She wasn’t broken. She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks. She was always tryi... JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN She [Draper] is just mentally tough, she likes to compete. We were trying to decide if she could com... BRAD CATTERMOLE She knows Daddy better than I do. I think it's because she's felt since we were children that our Da... JAMES BALDWIN Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh... 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