Tagged: Family (813)

Twister 3146

The baby entered the room. He wobbled over to his parents’ bed. He pulled the sheets back, startling his parents. Hot dog! he said, smiling.

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Twister 3365

He remembers his dad laughing at his own jokes. It’s why i don’t think anything’s funny, he tells her. And then she kisses him and he laughs

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Twister 3502

The bourbon goes down rough but his baby continues to cry and his wife isn’t home and then he starts crying too because the bourbon is cheap

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Twister 3623

Almost every day, he’d ask the kids, Do you think I’m stupid? and then one cold evening his wife took him aside and told him the awful news.

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Twister 153

He tells her he needs things she can’t give. She tells him to shut up and fix the stairs. You’re not listening, he says, searching for nails

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Twister 24

He ate the world’s largest pizza and then retired to an island in the Aegean. He married the local mayor’s daughter. His mother was so proud

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Twister 191

He spilled rum all over his white pants as he broke into a crazed rumba. The stain looks like that thing on Gorbachev’s head, his wife said.

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Twister 108

He downs his beer with authority. I’m going home, he says. My family loves me. He wobbles out and hails a cab. I need a burger fast, he says

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Twister 346

All I wanted was a ten speed, he says. Must it be linguine? she says. I’m into The Sound of Music, he says. You look so old lately, she says

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Twister 449

He had an affair with their babysitter’s mother. It was passionate and awkward, especially when the mother volunteered to do the job herself

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