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gary, indiana is forever lit (opens the original)
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History shouldn’t be a mystery / Our story’s real history / Not his story.1<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1820" src="https://subs
those saxophones might be getting louder (opens the original)
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Hello, I am sending love to you in these very wild and painful times. Let us cut to the chase.i’m reading:This about “the saxophones getting louder.” <a
me and the art of motorcycle maintenance (opens the original)
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wellwell?we all have things that keep coming up. scenes or things or people or places that just come up. something that’s always come up for me since I was the littlest of girls: motorcycles.just, all the time.I noticed them. I remember things about them. I remember things about the people who ride them, whether I know the people or not.when I was in my teens and 20s I definitely dated people that had motorcycles. and motorcycles were a part of the reason why I dated them. i’m not saying they we
i just wanna know your name & maybe some time (opens the original)
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It was quite a June — my birthday month — and for the last few weeks I’ve been lowkey humming “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s weird-ass1 Carousel. I know the melody, yes, but I still know most of Nettie Fowler’s words: June is bustin’ out all over / All over the meadow and the hill / Buds’re bustin’ outa bushes / And the rompin’ river pushes / Ev’ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill!
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