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Charles
Turrentine
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These writings
began as written correspondence from my father years and years
ago when I was in a deep depression and life just didn't seem
worth much. I would sometimes receive half a dozen letters in
a day, because he would think of something else to write after
he had sealed a previous envelope. Over time he began sending
copies of these letters to a growing number of friends and family
members. Eventually the whole thing went online, and my father
has a regular daily audience for his thoughts now via email and
on message boards. What is presented here is a small sample of
what those of us on his list read almost every day.
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Navajo items
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A
Few Animal Thoughts by Others
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A
few Chinese comments on the world
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A
Few Words About My Aunt Teenie
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A
horrible state of affairs
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A
man of few words
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A
Question of Guilt
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A
soldier's pay
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A
test for your dog
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A
vast international conspiracy
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A
walk in the woods
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Abdul
Abulbul Amir
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Academia
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Adam's
Task
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Admonition
to a piper
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Afghans
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Airports
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Alexander
Hamilton
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Allah's
children
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American
history
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An
Arab
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An
open door for fears to slip in
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Ancient
wisdom
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Anguished
English
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Another
shot of O'Crohan's Island Crosstalk
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Apt
sentences
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Archer
City & Larry McMurtry's Bookstores
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Beware
the festive dog
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Blue
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Blue
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Books
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Books
of 2000
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Books
read in 2001
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Books
read in 2002
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By
the slimmest of chances
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Canis
mordit homo
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Child
protective services
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Child's
Play
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Chile
peppers, or chili peppers, if you prefer
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Coincidence
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Commander
Scott Waddle
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Cottonelle
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Dallas
area doin's
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Darwin
and the Barber Bug
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Deck
the halls
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Dido
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Differences
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Dog
emotions
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Dog
Stories
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Dog
thoughts
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Don't
forget Saudi Arabia
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Druids
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El
Jornado del Muerto
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Electricity
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Elizabeth
Forster Nietzsche
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Fate
is the hunter
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Favorite
US Hotels
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Fifteen
points on immigration
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Forrester
quote
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Fort
Richardson
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Gemichster
pickles
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Geneology
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Genetics
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George
Will
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Gleanings
from Yesterday's Readings
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Grapes
- A new line of thought
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Gravy
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Haiku
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Headlines
of 1943
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Historians
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How
old is man's relationship with the dog
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How
the Leopard Got Its Name
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How
To Get Acquainted with a Mean Dog
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How
to speak dog
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Hunter
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Huntington's
Disease
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I
am misunderstood
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I
bring the news
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Idle
thoughts
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In
amazement and despair (a diatribe)
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In
Love With Norma Loquendi
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Irish
tidbits
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Islam
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Island
crosstalk
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It's
all in the frijoles
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John
L Lewis speech (partial)
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Judge
Dee
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Kumquats,
Longnans, Lychees and Loquats
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Lazy
Oxen
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Lederer
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Lederer
and the English language
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lil
fuckin thought for the day
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Lovable
US
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Mad
King George
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Mahmoud,
the Merciful
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Maps
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Mencken
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Messages
from American universities
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Michigan
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Misc
info from "Who Gave Pinto To The Santa Maria?
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Misc
items
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Miscellaneous
Indianry
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Modoc
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Monthly
thought for Mugtoe
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More
dog stuff
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More
elephant lore
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More
Mencken, mostly one-liners
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More
misc items
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More
Negotiating Stories
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More
notes I made while reading
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More
Rules for Fiction Writers
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Munner
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My
Condition
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My
Energy Plan
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My
father
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My
Friend, el Paisano
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My
Friend, the Cacomistle
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My
Friend, the Peccary
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My
Roommate, JK
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Names
from famous people
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Navajo
bits and pieces
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Navajo
courtesy and consideration
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Neat
words
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Negotiating
Stories
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No
more Cioran
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Notable
quotes
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Numbers
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O.O.O.
and Anglo-Saxon
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On
being alone
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On
the news
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On
the ocean floor
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Open
range
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Orts
from my literary table
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Orts
from my literary table this week
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Pastiche
or Parody?
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Paul
Harvey
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Peggy
Noonan
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Pepys'
diaries
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Places
of abode
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Poetic
Snippets
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Political
Correctedness
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Poor
Abe
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Ramblin'
On
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Ramblin'
On 2
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Ramblin'
On 3
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Ramblin'
On 4
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Ramblin'
On 5
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Re:
1902
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Realpolitik
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red-headed
Navajo
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Rules
for Fiction Writers
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Run
and Play
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Ruth
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Samuel
Rosenberg
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San
Diego
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Sayings
of the Druid Taliesen
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Scattershot
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Sea
Stories
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Secular
intellectuals
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Sestina
1
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Skiing
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Slothful
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Soccer
moms
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Social
engineering
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Solitude
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Some
Arab Aspects
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Some
chapter headings
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Some
goodie quotations
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Some
other things my father used to say
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Some
scathing criticism by famous critics
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Some
Widely Scattered and Divers Quotes
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St
Elizabeth of Hungary
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State
of the world 5 August 2001
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Straight
from the horse's mouth
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Strange
People From My Past
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Student
pilots
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T.
S. Painter
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Talking
to your car
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Texas
weather
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The
10 worst places in the world to drive
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The
100
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The
Arab Problem
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The
Art & Science of Pole-Climbing
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The
batman
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The
Big Bang
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The
coming IRS bit
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The
Constitution of the United States of America
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The
critic's tongue
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The
education of a soldier
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The
Fitzgerald Contraction
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The
Great Cat Conundrum
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The
Great Snake Hunt
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The
Great Snipe Hunt
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The
Hour of Our Death by Phillipe Aries
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The
Issues That Divide Us
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The
medical conundrum
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The
names of the winds
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The
Names of Things
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The
Navajo language
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The
power of education
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The
Queen Mother's Funeral
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The
Razor Blade Conspiracy
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The
retirement of nuns
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The
Soul of Battle
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The
Tarahumara
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The
Value of a National Character
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The
way I really is
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The
weekend
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They
went that-a-way
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They
went that-a-way 2
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Things
found in an envelope in Munner's room
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Things
I've heard my father say
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Things
I've heard my father say
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Thoughts
of import
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Tidbits
from the soul of battle
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Travels
on my elephant
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Two
stories from old-time Oklahoma
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V.S.
Naipaul
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Vanished
from my world
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Visas
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Wait
upon me, Courage
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Was
Columbus first?
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Wellington's
generals
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Whacha
gonna do when they come for you?
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What
book shall I read?
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What
Did You Say?
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What
is history?
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Whatever
happened to...?
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When
We Were Thirty-Nine
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Where
Do You Live?
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Where
is Usama?
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Where
I've been
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While
wondering what the plural of faux pas is.
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Why
the Peninsular War?
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Women
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Women
in combat
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Wondering
and wandering
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Writing
and rejection
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Ye
Olde Optics Shoppe
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yesterday
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