"I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people."

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"I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people."

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"Because I'm on the phone, Mom!''Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?''Ahmadinejad.''Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?''That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going.''Don't be so fresh, young man!''Gotta go,' he says to me. 'Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell.''Fall back, solider. Over and out."

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"It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.But I do not.I do not."

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