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Maureen Johnson
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 16
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People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.
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And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.
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With that, I splashed some water on my face, fixed on a smile, and stepped out. I would find Jerome. I would make him explain to me what I was missing. We would laugh, then we would kiss with tongue, and all would be well.
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You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.
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No sausage? he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.
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Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.
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I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.
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Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga?
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Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.
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This is England, he explained. Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.
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WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.
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New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.
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One question, I said. Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die? No, he said. It's because you're doing something brave, and I felt I should too. I'll take that as a yes, I said.
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Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.
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It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
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I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.
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Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for those spots that are so hard to reach by yourself.
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I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape, the police would say in the APB. Probably making her way to bust her parents out of jail.
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English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
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Did you hear? he asked. They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely. Good morning, I replied. Morning. Listen to this. The second victim.
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