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I'd expected to go home to find a romantic evening planned. Found something else instead.
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The winning baseball home run in 55 words. Bruises may occur.
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It swallows its victims in one gulp, and Andrew Halsey knows the only way to free them.
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After all he had done, THIS is how he's rewarded? Entry for Writer's Cramp 2/26/09; won
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