with a delicate gesture, she put the cigarette out and looked at him with somber eyes.
"I know exactly what you mean," she said.
"I know exactly what you mean," she said.
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Re: The Final Smoke
Wed, June 8, 2005 - 4:50 PMFour-year-old Charlie gazed up at Neve from under the tablecloth. He had chocolate ice cream all over his face and down the front of his navy-blue button-down shirt. His bow-tie was askance and his fingers scrabbled distractedly in the metallic confetti on the ground.
"I want to go home," he said, a single tear tracking a rivulet through the chocolate on his cheek. -
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Wed, June 8, 2005 - 5:14 PMand she closed the door behind them.
next was to retrieve the birth control pills from the chocolate ice cream stashed in the freezer.
'charlie!' neve screamed. 'you can come out now". she headed to the kitchen. -
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Re: The Final Smoke
Wed, June 8, 2005 - 5:23 PMexcept, the bowl was empty.
"damn," Neve said. She realized there were only a few things left to do.
First, she unplugged the phones.
Then, threw the television out the window, where it fell to the concrete courtyard with a satisfying crash.
Then, she checked on her parents. Both sleeping soundly, at long last. The drugs must have kicked in. She tiptoed over to the bed, kissed her mother's cold forehead, pulled the covers tightly under her father's chin, -
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Wed, June 8, 2005 - 5:46 PMwas soaking wet. it didn't matter though.
she looked in the mirror and said to herself "now it's MY turn".
she'd been to a"key party" once before. it was basically a party where unhappily married couples would gather and drop their keys in a bowl. the women would blindly choose keys from the bowl at the end of the night and agreed to go home with whomever the keys belonged to.
her marriage was certainly unhappy, she had that base covered. so she'd been excited to spice things up when she attended the last key party. at the end of the night, when it was her turn to reach into the bowl, she did so with glee.
already aroused, she approached the bowl hoping to grab lance's keys. she reached into to grab...
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