Twister 1624

He tries and tries to get the smell out of the car but fails. It’s like that Seinfeld episode, he says to his wife. Only not funny, she says

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Twister 1623

He had so internalized the fact he was a loser he couldn’t imagine himself as anything but. So it’s why I chew my nails, he told his doctor.

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Twister 1622

He wore a fat woman’s dress and ran through the streets before he was arrested and paraded before the media. And then he met his future wife

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Twister 1621

She looks at the stain on the couch and remembers how it got there. And she smiles but the smile is quickly replaced by loathing. And chips.

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Twister 1620

They fell in love while hiking in Nova Scotia. But she had a thing about footwear. If you don’t wear shoes, I won’t suck your toes, he said.

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Twister 1619

He loved medical dramas. His wife said there were too many of them on television. And I suppose you also think there’s too much air, he said

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Twister 1618

They would try but their house was always a mess. This didn’t stop them from inviting people over. But not caring was that much much easier.

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Twister 1617

Jones looked different. He was asked about his hair, his weight, his clothes. So he sent out an email to his colleagues. I’m happy, it said.

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Twister 1616

She adjusts his tie and fixes his cufflinks and steps back and takes him in. You still don’t look good, she sighs. She knows. He never will.

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Twister 1615

He wanders the aisles at the gardeners’ convention stopping to ask pretty ladies about lawncare and hedge trimming. I’m a bad man, he thinks

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