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Freedom From Fear has big plans, the fact that they say that after they get this lion, they’re going to rid America of “all predators, both human and animal,”
Homeland Security just issued strict guidelines not to take your kids lion-hunting, after what happened in Akron,
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one kid accidentally shot his big brother in the foot, and in return his brother shot him dead, Keds, the fact that now everybody’s blaming the lion for it, not the dad,
ooooof
Kelly McGillis’s basin bath,
witness
somebody said Trump’s raped thirteen-year-old girls, the fact that I wish he’d just quit it, just quit it, I mean the presidency, but it would also be good if he quit raping little girls, “Malignant narcissist,”
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“That’s why I won’t do two shows a night anymore,”
Beetlejuice
“my poor nerves,”
Pride & Prejudice
the fact that I don’t like it when people zap their chip-keys right through you either, the fact that, call me crazy, but that just seems rude, the fact that I just don’t think you should unlock your car door right through someone, and the same goes for the TV
hahhaah what a neurotic
the fact that you could get a whole Sandra Bullock movie outta that, oh wait, I guess they did,
Speed
the fact that some woman police officer said that, in her experience, things often escalate when a male police officer arrives on the scene, the fact that the whole thing turns nasty, the fact that it’s testosterone, or the amygdala, or poor people skills, or something,
the fact that he only spanked me once, I think, Daddy not the architect,
I say
Daddy ordered us not to give her any trouble or she might die, the fact that from then on I was frozen inside, the fact that that was the moment I really lost my mom,
the fact that you’d either be either shot or arrested or both, depending on what sort of policeman you got, and what ethnicity you are,
the fact that even if I am shy and my daughter hates me, there are sunsets of many colors and that is good,
the fact that then I was on my own, visiting a Japanese couple with a lovely Japanese-style garden, the fact that they had pools of koi carp inside and outside, and a dark wooden house made of thick planks of wood, the fact that it felt like I’d dreamt about them before, like when they’d just moved in maybe, and they’d had a sick cat, because now I was telling the wife how beautiful their house was and how much better things seemed than last time, the fact that I pointed out their big fat rabbit and their koi carp and their healthy cats, and she laughed, which surprised her husband, because
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What do I do with this dream?!
the fact that if they’re so worried about birds, stop all the tree surgery,
that their parties always seemed to require days of cleaning and cooking and running around stiff-lipped, the fact that it all looked so grim and unfun that Phoebe and I decided we’d never have parties when we grew up, and I’ve more or less stuck to that,
the fact that scars are strange, the fact that they’re a sort of photograph of your wound, that’s left on your skin forever, like a kind of crummy tattoo,
I dreamt last night about somebody complaining that he owned a “lesser Cézanne,”
“a genuine idiot,”
North By Northwest
you have to watch that all your life, once you’ve had an earlier husband, calling your new husband by the other husband’s name, the fact that first husbands leave their mark on your brain in some way,
the fact that that was at Frank Lloyd Wright’s own house called Taliesin, in Wisconsin, the fact that one day, their hired cook killed Frank Lloyd Wright’s mistress and her two children with an ax, and then he killed all the workmen as well, and set the place on fire, landsakes, what a thing to do, the fact that Frank Lloyd Wright wasn’t there at the time, the fact that he had the whole house rebuilt, which was sort of brave of him, but then it burnt down again, and he rebuilt it again,
wait what?!
the fact that a lot of women do keep their pistols in their underwear drawer, loaded as well,
my grandmother for one
the fact that I’m tired all the time, and not well organized,
yes
the fact that Thin Mints are the Girl Scouts’ most popular cookie, and the next favorite is the Samoans,
that's because they are the best
the fact that nobody’s safe in America,
the fact that he’s on his way, but are we losing precious time, police, rape, murder, bears, the fact that there are long-haired lungers and, and shooters and rapists and wife-beaters out there, a sea of them and there’s nothing I can do about it,
the fact that they have babies with the girls and then they kill the babies, my grandkids, the fact that so many men are merciless, heartless,
Trump, Bill Clinton, Lolita Island, sex slaves, trafficking,
she called it
the fact that, okay, I admit teaching a weird kid like that how to use firearms was kind of irresponsible, the fact that you’d think taking Adam Lanza target-shooting might not be top on your list of priorities if you were his mom, but how was she to know, the fact that I’m sure she never thought he’d slaughter a whole classroom of little kids,
the fact that anyway, if she was so outta line, how come parents are still teaching their kids how to use guns, after Sandy Hook,
the fact that the police are so hyper though, the fact that they seem sort of hysterical, the fact that are they trained to be that way,
all have PTSD, from dealing with all the well-armed criminals they have to meet, but they act like everybody’s out to get them, the fact that they’re kind of paranoid sometimes, the fact that you’d think maybe they could just pepper-spray people, or something, if they find them so threatening, not kill them all, the fact that if they could just calm themselves down, maybe they could calm down the “situation,” but it’s like they can’t be bothered, the fact that it’s too much trouble, the fact that calming suspects instead of killing them might take up more time, the fact that I guess they don’t
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the fact that one thing you learn as a mom is a little patience, otherwise no kid would make it to adulthood, the fact that maybe...
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some dad who everybody thought of as a real “protector” of his family, just shot them all and himself, because he couldn’t afford to pay the bills and didn’t want his family to suffer, I mean from poverty, the fact that I think he maybe took that “protector” role too far, the fact that that poor little baby was only nine months old, and the little girl was three, and the wife loved those kids so much, and now she can’t take care of them because she’s dead, and they are too, all that love just down the drain, the fact that she put all that effort into existing and bringing children into the
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the fact that, I mean, boy, your kid can damage or destroy herself, wreck her life and yours, at any moment, with one bad decision, high swing, and there’s zilch you can do about it, Annual Northwestern Faculty Summer Picnic, the fact that then your life would just be over, Sandy Hook, the fact that this is kind of a hard fact to face, and I think the way moms survive is by not facing it most of the time, not until you absolutely have to,
the fact that I still find myself counting them again and again, four, to make sure they’re all present and correct,
I do this with two
the fact that Jim only liked the ducks in the park, “Ducky! Ducky!”,
end Week 4 Day 1
location 14032, page 849 uk
later we found a big duck fast asleep on the information sign beside the pond, blocking all the wildlife info, and it looked deliberate, like he really didn’t want us finding out what other kinds of water fowl there were there,
heehee
Geena Davis tries out all the lipsticks in the store, while they’re training the dog to stay still outside,
Accidental Tourist?
the fact that I don’t get it with viruses, the fact that they’re not even alive, so how come they care this much about being passed around, the fact that what’s in it for the herpes virus, the fact that why do viruses get such a kick out of annoying people,
why do they even want to exist, the fact that I just don’t get it, the fact that what drives a cold to want to be spread around, but something does, because they mutate all the time in order to get spread better,
right, the fact that poor Gillian didn’t seem to be part of this dream at all and, strangely enough, the stray girl was called Stacy,
that Barbara obviously had a big crush on Frank in the old days,
Frank? ooh
INSTRUCTIONS AND PRECAUTIONS, NECESSARY TO BE ATTENDED TO IN NAVIGATING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER,
The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
the teenage kids are rude to her, the fact that they’re already awfully suspicious, but Joan Bennett isn’t, the fact that she trusts her husband, like I do,
uh oh
the fact that there isn’t always tomorrow though, because eventually you pass away, or your husband shoots somebody in the groin and your whole life’s ruined, or he has an affair with
UH OH
the fact that a guy in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, shot his wife and their three little kids, and then himself, all because she was leaving him, the fact that six shots were fired, one for their dog,
ooooof
that, the fact that all they do is make her life sound so paltry, meaningless, all her strivings summed up in half a sentence, Bingo, charity work, crochet, snickerdoodles, the fact that it’s almost like they want to make her seem small and insignificant, even while they praise her and offer their thoughts and prayers and so on, just so that they can push her aside and forget about her as fast as possible,
chin, the fact that in real life, right after playing that role, or only a few years after, Alec Baldwin went and married someone half his age, and had three kids with her, one right after another, self-defense, taekwondo, the fact that it’s like he learnt nothing at all from being in that movie,
ha ha
