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By Jack Forbes
one of the main reasons I stopped drinking was because I was starting to disengage from stuff. not huge core-memory making stuff, although a few things did fall by the wayside, sure. but it was more incidental stuff. like the way the sun will hit just right in the afternoon.
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What’s my pitch? Well … um … yes. Steep. Like an Edwardian iron roof and as you slip down, the…
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She needs it taken down; I don’t know how it got there. Who put it up? She can’t recall. It’s…
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