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innocent by reason of insanity.
And if Dovey had seen reason to judge, she didn’t say so. The better part of friendship might be holding one’s tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.
strange fortune,
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Bible - Isaiah 43,1-7
As the only shearer in the county, Luther’s skills probably put him in greater demand than any doctor or drug dealer out there.
Haha
Ouch
Younger men wanted nothing to do with such hard work, preferring to drive some rig or gaze at a screen.
Ouch
Dellarobia had never even entered that shop,
Haha
Haha
Haha
Ouch
The woman ran all horses with the same whip.
Simile-metaphor
Haha
Crystal must have abandoned her post as cleanup girl after about ten seconds. Lucky her, she could defect without getting court-martialed.
Haha
Rectangular at Eastover Farm
“The taxes went up, and he’s got a balloon on his equipment loan. You and I are behind on our house payments. Money’s coming in even lower this year than last. He’s thinking we’ll have to buy hay out of Missouri this winter, after we lost so much of ours.”
almost poverty
the news team down at Hair Affair.
Haha
Haha
The equipment loan was backed up by a lien on the land.
Uh-oh
Haha
In case of fire, take a nap.
Haha
“A clear cut.
“That’s where they’ll give you the most money. According to Dad, it’s easier when they don’t have to pick and choose the trees.”
Ecology
She stared at Cub, trying to find holy matrimony in there,
Ouch
The cause of their marriage had been conspicuous at the wedding, but she’d gone a little foggy on the earlier motives.
Haha
Ouch
His bewildered sexual gratitude, as near a thing to religious awe as a girl of her station could likely inspire.
Haha
you could run out of gas on boyish, that was the thing. A message that should be engraved in every woman’s wedding band.
Haha
Ecology
Simile
Cub claimed the surfing relaxed him. It made Dellarobia grind her teeth.
Ouch
Haha
Simile
For the first time in her life she could see perfectly well how a person arrived on that flight path: needing an alternative to the present so badly, the only doorway was a high window.
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an all-knowing creator probably would find humans to be exactly the same kind of ignorant little dumb-heads as these sheep.
Haha Bible
Suddenly they were strangers, though they’d been here together all along.
Ecology
They must have some good reason; animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.
Haha
Haha
Economics
Haha
the redneck national anthem:
Haha
It made her want to punch something, all that sorry.
Ouch
They’d sworn onto a flight plan, older guys with vocabularies and bank accounts, men from anywhere but here.
Haha ouch
Inadmissable thoughts.
underly endowed
“They can’t log that mountain,” she said. “Why not?” “I don’t know why not.” A lake of fire,
