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this morning, while still in bed, he made a list, so that later, when he fully awoke, he would visit the liquor cabinet and honor each of his forebears in turn. Gin for Franklin the Solemn (who also exhibited a proclivity to bouts of dry humor, swaths even, during those real droughts of comedy); rum for Stephen the Scourge (no more is needed here); scotch for Vindictus (single malt for a single moniker); bourbon for LeMange (his complete absence of fear during the ebbing tides of homogeny was legendary); and so on and so on and so on.

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in Colorado they give you a free trucker hat at the border.

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i am lonely and i bet you are lonely too.

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compartments.