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I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.

Simone Elkeles

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Simone Elkeles
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 24
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Stop focusing on the bad stuff because life is too damn short.
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She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.
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Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her.
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With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. Does that make sense?' It does. It also makes me sound bipolar.' Love will do that to a person.
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We kiss all the time. I clear my throat, then add, We just...do it in private.
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I turn around and wrap my arms around his neck. Whoa, girl, he says taken aback. I thought we were keepin' this thing between us a secret. I hate to tell you, but a bunch of north siders from Fairfield are right over there. And they're starin' at us I don't care. Not anymore Why You only live once
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Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days
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being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.
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Say something, Amy, Miranda insists. Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better. Okay, Miranda. I've got it. I motion the girls to lean in close to hear my words. At least I'm not dead. How's that for positivity? I have to admit it does make me feel better.
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Please, amigo. We need you, Kimosabe, O Mighty Powerful One. We need you more than the earth rises in the west. The sun rises in the east, dickhead. Only if you're standing on the earth. If you're on the moon, the earth rises in the west.
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It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine.
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Mildred waves Carlos over. 'Let me look at you.' She eyes him up and down. 'I saw you when you walked in. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.' 'I suspect I am a hooligan,' he says to her. 'Whatever that means.
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Consider me your candy stripper... I mean striper.
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As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.
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Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!
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When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]
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Do I make you nervous? His gaze travels from my eyes to my breasts and down to where my dress meets my thighs. In that dress you do.
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The threat of taking something away makes us appreciate it more.
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