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I tried to be as inconspicuous as possible as I lay the sausage against my ear. Abruptly, my cell phone went dead. A drop of grease dribbled into the dead center of my ear, creeping like a worm down onto my neck and below the collar of my shirt. A group of men and women in business suits walked by, swerving to avoid me. Across the street, a homeless-looking guy was staring at me, curious. Yep, this was pretty much rock bottom. As I was about to reach for a napkin and at least get my money's worth by eating the bratwurst while still hot, I heard it. "Dave? Can you hear me?

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David Wong

John Dies at the End

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One day Augustus asked Newt to ride along with him, much to Newt__ surprise. In the morning they saw a grizzly, but the bear was far upwind and didn__ scent them. It was a beautiful day__o clouds in the sky. Augustus rode with his big rifle propped across the saddle__e was in the highest of spirits. They rode ahead of the herd some fifteen miles or more, and yet when they stopped to look back they could still see the cattle, tiny black dots in the middle of the plain, with the southern horizon still far behind them.

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Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove

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Lehi__ message, given some six centuries before the coming of the Messiah, seems very applicable to our day and time: __ that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea, even from the sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by which ye are bound. ._._. Awake! and arise from the dust, and hear the words of a trembling parent. ._._. Arise from the dust, my sons, and be men, and be determined in one mind and in one heart, united in all things, that ye may not come down into captivity. ._._. Awake, my sons; put on the armor of righteousness_ (2 Nephi 1:13, 14, 21, 23; emphasis...

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Robert L. Millet

Men of Valor: The Powerful Impact of a Righteous Man

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In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the state__ dominant political faction, that would reduce Kansas Democrats to third-party status, and that would wreck what remained of the state__ progressive legacy. We are accustomed to thinking of the backlash as a phenomenon of the seventies (the busing riots, the tax revolt) or the eighties (the Reagan revolution); in Kansas the great move to the right was a story of the nineties, a story of the present.

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Thomas Frank

What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

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I sprinted into the conference room as my boss, and the owner of this law firm, Cherie Poitras, grabbed her client around the waist, a woman dressed to the nines in high heels and a cream suit. The woman had actually crawled up on the conference table and lunged for her husband. Cherie and I wrestled her off, but not before the husband__ attorney put him in a headlock to keep him from strangling his soon-to-be ex-wife. Even in a headlock, the husband, a local politician who stressed the sanctity of marriage and traditional values, struggled to get at his wife, his arms and legs flailing around...

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Cathy Lamb

Such A Pretty Face