... did the usual, stand up, and sit down, boring stuff. Afterwards, everyone in the class got together and signed yearbooks and talked about the future. I sat with my friends Ryan and Marcus to eat. We discussed what we were planning to do, knowing little about what the future would hold for us. Later that ... night my friend threw a party. Greeting us with welcome arms, after the welcome he gave me a Red Stripe and showed me to the living room. I sat there having a good time waiting for my friends to show up. Stumbling through the door with his usual good cheer, Ryan said, "The party may ...

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... told me to relax, slow down, and sit at the table. In doing so, she gave me a nice ice-cold glass of water, and seeing me distressed, sat down next to me and non-chalantly asked me what was on my mind. Taking full advantage of her undivided attention, I told her as slow and as detailed as ... possible at the time being. As soon as I had finished my frantic attempt to slur everything out, she didn't laugh but instead sat there with that look in her eyes that she didn't believe a word of what I had just told her. The first thing she said in response was "Where did ... my mother. A subtle...

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... what tomorrow would bring. It was early in the school year when my friends and I were sitting around talking about our wild weekend. We sat there, so oblivious, not knowing what happened earlier that morning. My friend Jenn came inside the classroom on her cell phone. She hung up with her ... mother and sat down. We knew something was wrong, by the tone of her voice, as if someone had died and she was just receiving the news. When ... city 30 minutes away from me. Shortly after, the administrators came on the loudspeaker and asked that everyone assemble inside the auditorium. My entire...

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... become flaky and dry. This no longer seemed to be the same man that had taught me and helped guide me through life. My grandmother, too shocked to cry, faithfully sat next to his side. She was there for him when he needed her most, never releasing his hand, as his deep breaths became heavier and more labored. I recall watching my ... to his death, on an unusually warm November day, he was healthy enough to play golf and now he could not even perform the most basic of human functions. As I sat, watching over my grandfather, my thoughts began to wander. I began to reflect on the situation...

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... with a menacing silence which snapped when the scrawnier of the two stood over me and delivered several stinging slaps across my face. The larger one sat down at the console and popped open a secret door: there stood a very important looking safe. The next couple of hours I was interrogated ... won over the respect, admiration, and even friendship of the tall burglar, my new watchdog, whom I named B.G. (Big Guy). B.G. closed the door and sat with me in the long, mirrored dressing room. Somehow, alone with him, it seemed safe to be vulnerable. With a deluge of tears streaming down my ......

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... brief moment seemed like a decade, I thought that it would never pass. Never the less, I did not seem to mind holding my breath. Every so often, as I sat on the bleachers I would lift my weak, and almost frozen head to take a look around. Then, just as I started to cover my head with the hood of my ... snow, and other irritating winter elements were surrounding the crowd, she seemed as if nothing in the world were bothering her, especially the frost biting wind. As I sat there and watched her for a moment, I wondered how she was staying so warm and toasty, while the rest of us were abou...

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... reflected off of them had almost blinded me. I squinted my eyes and peered into a restaurant that was close to being empty. One person sat on a stool. There were employees there, quite contented in manner. I walked in and now there were dollars leading up to the stool where the person's buttocks ... sat firmly. From the first coin to the last dollar totaled in at thirty one dollars and fifty seven cents. After I"d picked up the last dollar, ... before. She kissed me and I kissed her back. Sparks were flying and blood was pumping. My heart was beating faster and faster, bulging out of my ...

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George sat bent upright in an old white hospital bed, staring out of his window. Above him, the lights were blank, only sunlight provided for his vision. Through the window he could ... on her face. I made my eyes break away and greet the others. They shook my hands and we pressed our bodies together. During the remainder of the night, we all sat and told stories as I handed out gifts I had accumulated over the months out at sea. My most precious gift, I handed to the girl my eyes met with at first. It ... yeah," Bill asked also smiling, "and what does he do?" "Oh, I don't know, something w...

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... with the fear of what they were thinking and saying about me. Were they thinking and saying positive or negative things about me? I quickly grabbed an audition form, a script, and sat tucked away in the small corner of the room. Small dents and creases decorated the new script cover where I clutched the script tightly. I twisted and turned in the small seat ... the comforts of the theatre and into a spacious, unfamiliar new room. Sharp corners and odd angles gave the room an unique shape. In a small corner of the room, a CD player sat upon a small table. We were then instructed to turn ...

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... . That first night of my sleeping problems is my definition of a bad dream, but the night of my first panic attack is my definition of a nightmare. I woke with a jolt and sat up. Something wasn't right. My ears were ringing. It sounded as if a thousand high pitched whistles were being blown simultaneously. Then I heard a distant pounding. It sounded as if someone was ... , the spinning slowly came to a stop. Soon after, the ringing and pounding stopped as well. My breathing slowed down until all that's left of whatever had just happened was shaking. I sat up again, turn on the light, and ...

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... the steel getting tighter against my wrist with every click. Next thing I knew I was in the back of the police car sitting in the most uncomfortable seat I had ever sat in. After Josh sat next to me we started laughing telling old stories. I finally felt relief after nine years. As the cop turned the car around, I remembered my last day of school ... ...

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... asked me to come home, as if nothing had happened. My boyfriend, eventually, convinced to me go home. Once we got back, all four of us, including my mom's boyfriend, sat down to talk. In that life changing discussion, I poured my heart out to my mom and everyone listening. While my mom looked at me with an ice-cold stare, while ... entire life had just said that to me. It broke my heart into millions of pieces, which some are still missing. The truth was then revealed. All three of us sat there looking at a beautiful, intelligent woman, whose only joy in her life was me, knowing that th...

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... my attention. I placed my coke on the counter and accompanied her to a dance on the dance floor with everyone else. We danced, laughed and had a good time. When we had sat back down I soon found out that her name was Alexandra C and she was in her early twenties. She was a girl that was always happy, perky at times and was always ... has to do what a grooms has to do in order to look his best, even if it means to lose a couple pounds from the heat. The black car that Alexandra sat in finally drove up. I could see her sitting in the back seat with her white dress. My heart started to bea...

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... fine. Finally the moment came when I had to say good bye to him since his plane was going to depart before mine. After saying good bye, to him I went and sat in a corner. I looked around everywhere and my inner-self was asking a lot of questions. Who am I? What am I doing here? It was such a different feeling. I was so fatigued that I fall ... visiting new places. After almost spending the whole day outside, we returned to our apartment at late in the evening. I took a long breathe and said "what a lovely day it was". I sat on a cozy chair putting my feet up on a small table. My mind wa...

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... we thought we would not get caught and honestly I wanted say well you never did before, but I kept my comments to myself. It had been an hour and we all sat looking at each other with blank faces and sweaty palms. We still had no clue what was going on, and then suddenly the officer returned with our ids and explained ... ...

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... Scott Drive, we went around the side and walked down the cellar steps as we always did. She walked into the house and disappeared into her bedroom, came out, and sat in the middle of the living room floor. Seeing my mom sit in the middle of the living floor was really unusual. While sitting in the living room, there were ... ...

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... friend Michelle. To be honest, the only reason I invited George was so that Michelle would have someone to keep her busy while I put the moves on Nicole. After arriving we sat down next to the bar, opposite the entrance. The interior walls of the rectangular room were light with a transparent green neon glow coming down from the ceiling which flowed into ... ...

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... paper a tablet. I thought a tablet was the medicine Dr. Denton gave me when my throat hurt. I tried to tell the lady this. She said that was a different kind of tablet. So i sat there thinkin" that maybe we were going to make stories together. I was wrong. She stuck this thing on the board that looked like a teepee that Indians live in and said ... ...

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... twice about what I was going to do. Just then we saw headlights in front of us. We all ducked. "Did he see us?" Grant asked. "I don"t think so", I mumbled. We sat in the ditch for fifteen minutes timing how long it took the cop to circle the building in his car. Every forty five seconds he would come to a spot that ... ...

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