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No one provokes me with impunity. Mr. Griswold’s Current Affairs class has a partner school in Scotland, near Edinburgh.
Just like Poe's Cask of Amontillado
“I love you, Mom,” Holly says, and ends the call. Is that true? Yes. It’s liking that got lost, and love without liking is like a chain with a manacle at each end. Could she break the chain? Strike off the manacle?
The traffic is very heavy, although I don’t know where they’re all going. I went to a mall and it was half-empty.” “They’re visiting relatives, just like you,” Jerome says. “Relatives are the one thing Amazon can’t deliver.”
But my friend Bill taught me to always have a backup plan. “Belt and suspenders, Holly,” he’d say. “Belt and suspenders.”
“Sweetheart,” she says, “we’re all close. All the time.”
Miraculously, we are always so close. Death is always so close. That is why we must live our lives well.
