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Recently, my brother and his wife took a cruise through the western Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner.
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Giana and her sweetie came home one night and found a bear in their kitchen.
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It was a typical Sunday morning Mass at a typical Catholic church.
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I'm so hungry, I could eat all three of these by myself!
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If you don't mind, we would like to request a few of our favorite songs.
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It was none other than Cracker Jacks, a kid's best buy for a nickel.
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Old Charlie Johnson had been fishing the Erie canal most of his life.
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Now coyote was a dancin' fool. Couldn't help himself.
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I know this sounds like another one of those urban folk tales...
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We have one cow. We sell her milk to our neighbors who do not live too far away...
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“Hi, Johnny. What’s that you’ve got in your hand?”
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There’s this curious story about an alimony case.
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It happened in a little town down in the Southern Tier.
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Now I know this is not an easy topic to talk about...
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I visited my sister once while her husband was away on a business trip.
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A big lettered banner that said "Country Store" hung in front of the tiny establishment.
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Bill’s a city boy through and through. City born. City raised...
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Americans everywhere love the romance of farm life...
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I wasn't cool as a young man... I was far from it...
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Early one Sunday morning Bessie put a new batch of greens on to steam...
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A woman was waiting at an airport one night,
With several long hours before her flight...
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I entered a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and gave our order.
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It was first developed by Harry Coover, a PhD chemist at Eastman Kodak.
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He offered to take her shopping for a new dress. She was thrilled!
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We walked down to the beach to watch the sunset. Everybody does on the island.
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John Christian was, of all things, a Sunday School teacher.
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I have spent little time in a hospital, very little, as little as possible.
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She started losing her eyesight right in the thick of it all.
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Tom’s a career Navy man who works on a Navy submarine, and he loves his job.
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"I will return as a ghost and cause you endless trouble.”
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Ever wonder who makes up those stupid questions on those idiotic questionnaires?
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The great Desmond Tutu was no stranger to discrimination.
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The outhouse at the cottage was like most outhouses at most cottages along the lake...
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You could say Jess and Jack are aficionados of stuff. Old stuff.
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Dr. Sweeney is an esteemed professor at a nearby university.
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On Martha's Vineyard, off the coat of Massachusetts, Jim and his wife Katie work for the local newspaper delivery service.
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Each day they sit in silence on the bench at the edge of the park.
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The discussion about the Black Barber Shop has reached mythical proportions.
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Jake decided it was time for a little updating in his kitchen.
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An old four door 1979 Buick Electra. Bought new out of a catalog by her dad’s dad.
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That night the oil in all the other lamps went out.
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There was a kid from our neighborhood not too long ago who was looking for ways to earn money.
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I’ve had this “thing” about words ever since I was a kid.
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Not too long ago, Jake moved to a new town and joined the local Country Club.
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For ten sweaty minutes, they immersed themselves in the game.
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Once there was a King who decided to see what his subjects would do if they had an obstacle in their path.
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There were a couple of nuns who were nursing sisters...
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"These here are peppers. What don't you give one a try."
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The day wore on and the judge plied his way through one case after another.
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Kevin has taken an indefinite period of time off work.
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We all like to put a positive spin on our actions.
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"Mister South wind, how would you like to get married and be my husband?"
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Officer Frank decided that a little community service would be in order.
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Two ticks to the second means 120 ticks per minute...
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He struck up a deal for a spankin' new convertible complete with all the bells and whistles known to man.
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The first thing he did was to take a tour of the facilities,
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I should have known the moment I saw the crystal hanging from his neck where he usually wore a tie.
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People do all kinds of quirky things when they speak in public ...
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I was 8 years old and Tommy was 3 years older...
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He possessed an outstanding collection of silk ties from his former life that he no longer found useful.
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I was visiting my folks in Florida recently. They’re in their 80’s and could use a little help.
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Back in the days when NASA was preparing for the Apollo project, they did some astronaut training out West on a Navajo Indian reservation.
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The year was 1941 and they were both five years old, and they became fast friends.
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Ever since the day I was born, I've worn something with one name brand or another on it...
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There was once a woman in England who made her living by baking pastries which she sold at a tidy profit to a local bakery in her home town.
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One day these two Einsteins went out to build a house.
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His wife was in the nasty habit of nagging him from sun up to sun down, seven days a week.
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Life's a little thing! Robert Browning once wrote. But a little thing can mean a life. Even two lives
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There’s no real mystery to love. Ask any child and they’ll be happy to set you straight.
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It was in India long, long ago that a master sat down with his pupils under the shade of the banyan tree.
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“A few years ago I met a young widow and we got married.
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The last time I slept in my parent’s bedroom was when I was 6 years old.
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She was holding their new grand daughter to give their son a little time off.
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It was one of those perfectly beautiful spring days. Crisp blue sky. Ideal temperature. A real gift.
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The conservatory’s requirements were quite stiff...
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This isn’t about James Brown, that energetic soul singer...
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Mozart’s declining health convinced him that he was actually writing the Requiem for his own funeral.
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Bill leaned over and whispered, "Son, that isn't something we say when we are out in public."
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My buddy Bill decided to take a little time this fall to exercise his mind a bit.
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Tom and Stacy had been married for a little over two years.
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It's a steamy 93 degrees on our vicarious vacation
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Noah tries to give hotel guests accurate information as efficiently as possible.
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There are times when accidents occur and a life is saved.
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There are some things about this culture that I suspect nobody likes.
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Lewis has spent most of the 80 years of his life fishing the ocean waters beyond the Port Phillip Heads.
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“The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”
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There’s something about he way he looks at me that gives me to think there’s more he wants to say.
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"How was the trip?" The boy said, "It was great, Dad
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Sometimes even a dumb machine can teach us a lesson.
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Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joy ride.
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This Miami bank president is anything but ordinary.
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My grandmother was famous for her cooking… or should I say “infamous!”
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I had no idea what he was talking about, and I told him so.
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I had no idea what he was talking about, and I told him so.
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Time has its own way of laying out spaces. Time and progeny.
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Old Martin was known far and wide for his wisdom and clear headed thinking.
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Sure, there are norms, but that’s just what they are.
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My buddy and I decided to go out for a little late-night supper.
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This particular university there are a number of “unwritten rules” that permeate the campus.
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She was the sole survivor of her entire family.
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The nurse brought in chairs for the family and stood in a corner of the room as quiet support.
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Stacy loved ballroom dancing. And her favorite was the waltz.
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Frank told me about his most embarrassing moment.
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Long ago in old Japan, families used bamboo and paper lanterns with candles inside to provide light in their homes at night.
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He’s traveling cross-country with his 14 year old son.
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I've heard it said that sometimes the best defense is no defense.
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Long time ago, the birds got together to decide who should be their king.
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It was a bitter, cold evening in northern Virginia many years ago.
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They didn’t get boarding passes until they arrived at the gate.
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I suppose Valentine’s Day brings out the romance in all of us
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A newspaperman heard about a remarkable rodeo champion down in Abilene, Texas.
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As always, kids have a take on life that we can all profit by.
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If you ever want to know what’s what about life, you don’t need to go much further than a kid.
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When Melissa got the news about the diagnosis, she wasn’t the least bit surprised.
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He wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch.
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Joe and Ray have been friends since they were kids.
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The sea has a strange and inevitable way of claiming its own.
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Every once-in-a-while I am asked to write a recommendation for a coworker.
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Fumiko grew up in a tiny city outside Kyoto. And
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The Norsemen named the month Thor in honor of their god of thunder and storms.
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Lord Frothingly decided to go on a hunting safari in Africa.
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Why dost thou travel far from town to town with the goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving by tent?
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There’s a story about a police detective by the name of Jack Mook that’s well worth passing along.
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Bill Bentley went to his family physician the other day with what has to be the oddest malady I ever heard.
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Charlie likes to go out to breakfast. He’s been doing it since his working days.
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I woke up the other morning on top of the world!
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The town board was wrestling with an important consideration.
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It was garbage day and Bill’s neighbor asked him for some help.
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While I sipped my coffee I saw a fellow enter the Chatawile.
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There was once an adventuresome soul, Stanley by name.
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A merchant had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender.
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Ellie has been plying her professional skill as a medical technologist at the local hospital.
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Some say old man Murphy and his wife have been a couple for just about as long as the earth has been around.
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It happened when Sarah’s boyfriend Mike received a promotion in his company.
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Abraham Lincoln was never greedy for fees, and he discouraged any unnecessary litigation.
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It was about 10 degrees outside, and there was about a foot of snow on the ground. \
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he scene Is one of nature's most spectacular works of art.
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Now for the latest weather forecast for Christmas Day.
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I tell you, for a guy who’s eyes were so bad, his aim was darned good.
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He agreed to take his father to the doctor to have a series of tests.
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Jake is an avid golfer. He’s also an octogenarian.
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Anybody who’s worked retail will tell you that it’s tough
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Not too long ago, Billy and his father decided to pay a visit to their neighbor.
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Jim went to the store with his 3-year-old daughter in tow.
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Bob sent in an application to the Department of Motor Vehicles requesting personalized license plates for his car.
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The Monday Afternoon Club is a crusty organization of wealthy women from the city.
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Rick took his family to see the sights of the southwest.
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The celebrated Anthony Domat was the author of a treatise on civil laws.
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Ben Franklin was a venerable patriot from the early days of this great country of ours.
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This is a family hotel, so children are very welcome.
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“It happens all the time. Dry your eyes. Big boys don’t cry.”
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Edwin Abbott was a 19th century Anglican headmaster who wrote a remarkable book, Flatland, in 1884.
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I sat for a while to watch the birds and squirrels at their breakfast.
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I know the time is ripe for Thanksgiving blessings
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Every spring a bird builds its nest in the wisteria over our front porch.
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Monday morning, the teacher announced that on Friday afternoon there would be a two-kilometer race.
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Not too long ago, Bill made the decision to register to find his birth daughter.
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She was headed for one of those big round numbers this year.
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They were on one of those traditional family car vacations.
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The year was 1859 and they were stretching a rope across the Niagara Gorge.
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Since his blindness, that inner sight has become heightened.
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Susan discovered that she was having a good time, in spite of herself.
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Ian called himself the black sheep of the family, and so did the rest of his family.
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AJ’s 14th birthday. He’d already had as much of a party as he could wish for.
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Helen would give birth to a girl and a boy – Sofia and Connor.
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I often think of Snowshoe Thompson on my snowy moonlight walks.
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My old college buddy Tony lives in California near the Mexico border
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An American pal of mine was invited to Dublin to speak to an organization.
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He remembered that he had kept a daily journal of his own over the years.
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Now, black eyes are interesting things. They tend to bring out immediate sympathy.
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Lately, I’ve been keeping a mental list of smells
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He’s the closest thing I know to a patron saint of lost causes.
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My neighbor gets up much earlier than I ever could.
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Hogranasr was a good and just man, a champion of the poor, and a popular figure in many stories after his death.
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My buddy Fred loves small-town life where you know everybody.
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Oh boy! It’s that time of the year… strep season…
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Now, these two birds had grown up as childhood sweethearts .
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Sir Isaac Newton, better known to his homies in the hood as "Fig," invented gravity.
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There was once a merchant who accumulated a good deal of wealth.
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She had heard her students use the word "like" as if it were an adjective.
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There was a jackass once which had grown tired of its labors.
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Grant hopped in his car and set out on a solo road trip from Chicago to New Mexico.
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Dave’s mother bought his father a signet ring shortly after they were married.
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Bill had an important business meeting downstate.
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Gwen thought all this fuss about shoulder pads was just a feminist plot to make a woman look like a Green Bay Packer.
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The boys started doing what boys do when they have a gun in their hands.
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Henry and Margaret have been married for more than 65 years.
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She found a bathing suit in record time, but as she was leaving, disaster struck.
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When Henry went to the college's 30th reunion, he figured he wouldn’t recognize anybody...
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Joe said, “So what’s all this fuss you’re making over your wife?”
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My nephew Mark is learning a lot about fatherhood… from his own kid.
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Gert and Hazel were in a hurry to beat the crowds to the sales at the mall.
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Her memory rocketed back to the time they had met.
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Esther Pauline Freedman was born on July 4th, 1918. Seventeen minutes later, twin sister Pauline Esther Freedman was born.
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You have Sylvan Goldman to thank for that handy device.
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It’s hard anytime to resist the call of a clear, crisp star-spangled night sky.
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There was considerable excitement down at the Chat-a-while the other day.
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The rancher said, “Don’t grow no drugs around here.”
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The air conditioning for the room should be plenty for the space.
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There it was. THE SIDEWALK. The landmark of legends.
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There was a time when Nasrudin knew his son was looking for a wife.
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I'm fourteen and I'm riding a horse for the very first time.
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Not long ago Bill’s friend sent him a 'Viet Nam Veteran' hat.
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Next time you're stuck in traffic, think on this...
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There was a time when I was young and foolish. Called myself a scholar...
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Here are some actual excerpts from recent science exam papers...
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Ed’s son, Bunyan, wasn’t much interested in school.
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A clever young babysitter gains the trust of a family...
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A sensitive story about one person's kindness...
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Here's a remarkable story about one remarkable individual...
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The mystery of childbirth visits a country boy...
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Too much remote office work leads to too many carbs...
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And what in the world constitutes normalcy? Listen to this...
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A Greek fable of pride, action, and consequence.
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Oh boy! You know, the road to hell is paved with...
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A phone call, an incident, and the unexpected result...
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There's always something to learn from another's gripes...
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Over at the zoo, they’ve been experiencing a bit of a problem with the exotic animals.
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He was grinning from ear to ear as he zipped down a street .
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The process of birth is one of nature’s activities that one might well regard as miraculous.
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Brett climbed into his pickup truck and drove down to the local shopping center.
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My buddy Bill just came off a stint of jury duty.
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it was consumer's wonderland, a treasure hunt every kid dreams about.
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My buddy Jim gets about a ton of junk mail weekly.
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Our hero was a journalist who described himself as a "big, stocky bloke with a shaven head."
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I figure he boarded the bus somewhere in the vicinity of Abeline, Kansas.
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Tom drives a beat-up old VW Beetle to and from work.
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In India, a man was trampled to death trying to break up a love affair.
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In most countries in the Northern Hemisphere, July is the hottest month of the year.
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There was to be a great feast for all the men of the village.
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It happened one fine night at dinner, and it took everybody by surprise.
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Something as simple as a name can sometimes open doors of opportunity.
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He usually jogged for 45 minutes to an hour, keeping a pretty decent pace.
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I can do practically anything I set my hands on!
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A friend of mine has been in the job market on and off for the past ten years.
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Jesse James was one of the most notorious bank robbers of the American Wild West.
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If you ever pay a visit to Frankfurt, Germany, you might catch a glimpse of Jenny.
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When Tom started his own business, his wife had a fit over the secretary he hired for the front desk.
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Our specific destination was a little rural town called Matsuzaki on the Isu Peninsula.
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Thank goodness most of the mistakes we make in life happen when nobody is looking.
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Let’s go back to London of the nineteenth century, 1865 to be exact.
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Henry raised jackasses. Now, he was a steady worker, but he wasn't all that bright.
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Now, Jack was a fool, and he was prone to doin' foolish things.
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It was an incident that happened in Detroit in the 1930s.
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When I was teenager I operated under the notion that women were attracted to men by the way they wore their hair.
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I signed up for a course over at the local university.
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I signed up for a course over at the local university.
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Zen Master Hakuin traveled extensively throughout Japan to learn from other masters.
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This is a story of a bucket that is like the cup, only larger.
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For ages people had been fascinated by the romance of flight.
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Centuries ago, the country of Japan was fraught with feudal wars.
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First thing Larry and Susan did when they bought their farm years ago was to take out an insurance policy on the place.
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One afternoon, a warrior arrived at the house of the Samurai.
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Our friend Karen loves to cook Indian food. And we love to eat it. A convenient relationship...
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George and Margaret have been married long enough...
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This story's about Michael's youngest son, Tony.
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It seems like a thousand years since I was an active parent.
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He said, "everything you need to know is in your dreams, man."
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Back in the late ‘60s, Carl worked in Los Angeles and lived in Santa Monica near the Pacific.
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“If I were a vegetable, I’d be a potato,” he said, with all the sincerity his heart possessed
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When my dad was a young boy, he took on a newspaper route after school.
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There was a woman once who gave birth to identical twin boys.
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For over a century, Americans have been enjoying ice cream in a cone.
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I drop by the nearest restaurant I can find. It’s a little fancy, but who cares
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I need one of those fancy computer programs that generates stories ad infinitum.
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It had been a hot and harried day at the office...
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“I have grown intimate with this place,” he said to me one day.
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Mouse balls are available as field replacement units...
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. Our packs are feeling pretty heavy right about now...
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The granite and limestone mountain was first sculpted by nature.
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In 2003, police in England opened a garden shed and found an abandoned dog.
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Back when the telegraph was the fastest method of long-distance communication, a young man applied for a job as a Morse Code operator.
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The one thing that made him go was “wanting more.”
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They became instant rivals when they happened to apply for a single position at a computer company.
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For one thing, mom wasn’t very good at surprises.
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I needed to print out a portion of the script I was working on for my client.
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Silas Barnaby ran the mercantile, and he was a very rich man.
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The contest quickly narrowed itself to the two likely candidates...
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When old Henry up and died, his widow took it pretty hard.
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Her mother stopped the car at a Bird Sanctuary.
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The parrot must have disengaged the alarm, and he was gonna be late for work. Again.
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There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God.
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Once they were all settled in, Jamie couldn’t wait to cook her first meal in their new kitchen.
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"Well, I love to play golf, so if I could have a matching set of clubs that would be fine with me."
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Henry was a freshman at the college of his choice, and like all freshmen, he had a lot to learn, mostly about time management.
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Blanche found new meaning to the phrase, "What goes 'round, comes 'round" when the old cat died.
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Back in 73' Dave bought himself a brand new Triumph motorcycle.
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They moved along the keyboard with lightening speed.
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One morning, Billy opened his eyes and saw Charlie (he's his dog), slipping his back paws into Billy’s new red shoes.
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Early in her childhood, Daisy developed a curious hobby.
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"Mother, you must come see the daffodils before they are over."
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I was shocked to hear my dad tell me that he cut his hair!
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It was the music. It swept her up and washed over her in waves of contentment, feelings she felt as a child when she spent time with her father.
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He had trained for months for this moment, pedaling up and down the sloping hills...
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The first thing Tom noticed was that the taxi was clean and polished!
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A dedicated music teacher attends a conference and makes an interesting discovery.
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There was once a king named Dionysus who ruled a great city in Sicily.
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Here's the name of a man you've probably never heard of, but...
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Every day a young businessman happened to pass by a woman on the corner in front of a brick church.
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There was a storyteller in Japan whose fame is legendary to this very day.
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But he came from a poor family. Her parents weren't too happy.
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A few weeks ago he told them he needed a new hat.
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Each morning upon waking, he scanned the horizon for help.
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Here's a little bit of Americana for all you who have enjoyed road trips.
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A powerful true story that chronicles the value of education.
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"At this time of tellin', I'm not a pretty sight!"
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Her last project of the term was called "Smile."
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A strange discovery revealed at a parent-teacher conference/
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Not too long ago, a trio of ministers gathered for lunch at the Chatawile...
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"Baseball is a simple game!" That's what I heard one kid tell another kid on the playground...
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Granny Annie drove her beat-up Chevy everywhere.
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Barry is a doctor practicing in a nearby hospital.
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The sign at the observation deck clearly read: Gators are Dangerous!
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A very interesting way to meet a run-in with the law.
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Do you realize that the only time in our lives that we liked to get old was when we were kids?
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They dreamed of moving away to another town where there were more job opportunities.
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An ingenious way to solve an educational problem.
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Imagine that the greatest author of fables was a fable himself...
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Ever had to tell people about your accident over and over and over?
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Have you ever wondered what people think of you?
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The notion of the” computer novice” may sound as outmoded as the typewriter.
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A thermodynamics professor had written a take-home exam for his graduate students.
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Two monks who were traveling to a distant monastery came to a swift-flowing river that they needed to wade across.
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It happened regularly during the Sabbath service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe.
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Snyder’s Department Store went under a complete and total remodeling.
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When it was time for Old Henry to move into that retirement village for seniors, he was more than willing to go.
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It’s not easy being a salesman out on the road day after day.
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Naturally, our conversations that evening had a lot to do with babies and child rearing,
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A young man traveled to a nearby village where a great teacher lived in order to learn from him.
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I’m always amazed by the musings of children on the workings of the adult world.
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The movie Crash was actually inspired by a true-life incident.
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We recently inherited something from our kids. Now there’s a switch!
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She travels whenever she gets the chance, and the more exotic the location the better.
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Last week my buddy Jim took his wife and kids out to the Chatawile for dinner.
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Jonathan gets a kick out of taking his daughter shopping.
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He was a strong student and graduated high in his class ready to go out there and make a difference in the world of business.
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He was asked to prepare a memo reviewing his company's training programs and materials.
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He was recently awarded his Ph.D. in psychology.
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Every so often I look over the want ads, just to see what employment opportunities are out there.
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Lemme tell you about a rainstorm I heard about in the West.
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Try to find a parking space in New York City...
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A thousand years ago, or so it seems, I was made to memorize the words of a poem about Paul Revere.
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In our house we had a lot of infallible rules which I fully believed as a kid.
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One day The Supreme Force happened to be looking down at the Garden of Eden to see how its humanoid creation was doing.
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Diana is a first-generation American of Vietnamese heritage.
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For years I’ve had this curious Sunday morning habit.
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Old Jim Ruckert is pushing 80, and not too long ago went on down to Doc Buncher’s place for his annual checkup.
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Back in the early days of television, most of the screen personalities were well-versed in live-stage work.
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There are many stories involving the adventures of Daniel Boone, but only one that involves romance.
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I was sitting at my desk one night in my study, just doing the bills.
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Some 80 years ago there lived a retired professor in London who pursued the most unusual hobby: collecting graffiti.
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My son spends a lot of his waking hours on airplanes, and a good number of sleeping hours, too.
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The evils of alcohol and often familiar character of village life was the itinerant preacher.
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I heard this story recently. And although I can’t vouch for its historical accuracy, I found it worth passing it along anyway.
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I recently spent a month in Thailand, and I was stunned by their reaction to one of my favorite movies, “The King and I.”
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Those folks down at NASA have developed an interesting new device for the purpose of scientific inquiry.
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The name February descended from the word root "februum", which referred to the purification ritual celebrated on the 15th of the month.
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My kid brother Rick is keen on bringing up his kids right and proper.
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Now, that name isn’t familiar to the general public. But it should be.
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Several tombstones in an old Boston graveyard bear the name of Goose.
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He thought of the Beatnik era where all his students snapped their fingers to show their enthusiasm for a poem or a well-turned phrase.
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Barbara turned and found herself looking into the hollow eyes of a street woman.
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My brother has just become a daddy, again. And he’s having a ball.
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I know we’re all concerned about doing things right-- as long as somebody’s looking.
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Sometimes about this time of winter, I get to remembering the three day storm of ‘66.
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Is it true that there are no two snowflakes exactly alike?
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We blithely go about our daily business accepting things as they come without question.
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She was born into slavery in Hurley, New York, the ninth of ten children, all of them sold into slavery.
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The sun burst into my bedroom unannounced this morning.
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It was something she had wanted to do for as long as she could remember.
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Ever since he was a kid, Jack just loved being around animals.
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Imagine this. You’re standing at the corner of East and Alexander.
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Lots of memories, lots of laughs, lots of catching up.
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My old man had a warped sense of humor. Drove me crazy as a kid.
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All through her years at college, our daughter Giana waited tables to get some fast spending money.
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She was the 20th child of 22 children. Her father was a railroad porter and her mother was a maid.
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As a young lawyer in Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was never greedy for fees.
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My buddy Gene has just turned 85, and boy does he ever love to go fishing.
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Roberta kept getting Spam emails that beg her to take advantage of a home based business opportunity.
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It had snowed 3 or 4 inches last night. It had snowed as much practically every day this week.
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Wendy and Steve had a terrific argument the other day just before going to work.
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Bill was on the road not too long ago. This time it was up along the St. Lawrence River.
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A clear example of the paradox "Losing is winning."
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Tim bought a caged mongoose at a yard sale. Actually, it wasn’t a real mongoose…or a real cage.
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There were four of them, and they met every Thursday for poker.
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My good friend Bobby told me that he wanted to be a policeman. I asked him why.
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The English Language may be simple to all of us around here who use and abuse it on a daily basis.
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This incident happened to my buddy Joe, but he’ll never forget it. Neither will his in-laws.
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How do you determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer?
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He is forty-five years old, and he just bought his first bed.
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He had to get as close to the falling water as he could.
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Bill didn’t have a job. So he applied for the position of “office boy” at Microsoft.
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Seems that every little thing went against his grain.
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Not too long after my son learned to drive, he took to the roads with abandon... fortunately not reckless.
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My buddy Bill’s wife has taken on a nine-week assignment out of town, coming home on weekends.
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Dr. Culbertson was the first person Stephen met when he moved on campus.
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John was embarrassed by his mother. She had only had one eye.
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My buddy Bill has been fighting the “Battle of the Bulge” for as long as I’ve known him.
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She was growing weary of this long-distance relationship. At least that’s what she told herself.
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Every once-in-a-while I am asked to write a recommendation for a coworker as they move on to better pastures.
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It’s snack time in Ben’s art therapy group for emotionally troubled teens.
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Each day when Bill came home from work, he followed the same routine.
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For years, entertainer Jimmy Durante ended his radio and television shows with an unusual sign-off...
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An old buddy of mine decided that it was time to downsize.
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When Shelly got a call telling her that their mother had experienced a heart attack, she took the news calmly.
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My kid brother was not afraid to get his hands dirty.
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The little twist of time that brings all of us pause to ponder our place on the planet…
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and that’s when all the trouble started.
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A philosophy professor stood before her class with some items on the table in front of him.
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Sam and Helen live in a small town in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
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A dusting of snow had transformed the old town from a dull gray into wonderland of white.
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Once a week, my 4th grade teacher lined us up and marched us through down to the school library.
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It was a sad end to a long and difficult relationship. It’s always sad where endings are concerned.
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It looks like Jennings Osborne is gonna put up his Christmas lights on his house again this year.
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Herb had this thing about wanting to go Christmas caroling…
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Tis the season, or so they say. But it’s also the season to take stock of things.
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A man and his dog are walking along a road, enjoying the
scenery, when it suddenly occurs to him that he’s dead.
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Dr. Tullis drove one of the older cars on campus.
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The cat has been with the family for longer than anybody could remember.
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Stanley and his wife had the best that life could offer.
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Sometimes your profession can lead you into all kinds of hot water.
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Every morning when Jim gets up for work, Betty gets up, too.
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For the very first time her mom is letting her watch as she is developing photographs.
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Melissa had just moved to Manhattan. She had rented an apartment with a college friend, secured a job, and learned the subways.
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The congregation of the First United had themselves quite a stir.
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The country court was called to order. There was only one defendant, but plenty of spectators.
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Jeb had been living in a little cabin in the woods his whole life.
