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My aunt looked as if she were awaiting a barium enema.
“What happened to the nasty vizier?” “He went to France, where all the jealous people are.”
didn’t understand any of the words he said, I liked the way he said them.
‘You can search far and wide for the great stories, but in the end, the best ones come to you.’
“Remember the legend of the wise King Solomon and the Fount of Immortality. He refused to quench his thirst, for he wished not to outlive his loved ones.”
My mother agreed to marry my father if he pledged three things: to become more successful, to buy her a better home, and to stop his womanizing. Two out of three.
