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Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. Me ... Well, I was doing
I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little fing... 
No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was ... 
Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard.
Could an Olympian parent turn against his half-blood child? Would it sometimes be easier just to let... 
There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her... 
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ... 
The door opened, and it was
When I walked into the room, I looked down to the floor and saw that each and every garment I owned ... 
I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own b... 
I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my... 
Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what ... 
Cate had told me once, a long time ago, that the only way to survive your past was to find a way to ... 
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well,... 
I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to lea... 
I froze. It was not guilt that froze me. I had taught myself never to feel guilt. It was not a ghast... 
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of ... 
I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and t... 
Maybe that was the root of my dislike for her: she had what I wanted, which earned her my jealousy, ... 
When I finally begin to surface into the sterile hospital room in 13, I remember. I was under the in... 
This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful... 
We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... 
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'W... 
I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, ... 
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in ... 
What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsi... 
Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and en... 
Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better... 
My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on th... 
Cece was all I had. Without her, I’d be totally alone in the world. 
It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the ... 
When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and ... 
No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't u... 
I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sigh... 
Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. ... 
I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar. 
As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and s... 
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h... 
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to ... 
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... 
It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have... 