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By Bruce Holland Rogers 8 January 2007
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11 September 2000
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begins to cough and choke.
After the divorce, my wife said she didn't
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know who or what she wanted to be. When Locked Doors
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be without me? And she wasn't even good
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at it. She could only do two slices at a time,
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and they came out charred on one side and You can never let anyone
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one with inadequacies. That was the first rule she
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taught him, and the last,
True, I was unemployed myself. But a
before she left him here alone
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would take a job as a human being, or I'd
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stay on the dole. Heroic Measures
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Later, she worked as a hotel washing by Matthew Johnson
machine, then as a high-capacity dryer until
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she was demoted. She became one of those 18 December 2006
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canvas hopper. Finally, she lost even that Pale as he was, it was hard
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