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"Unlike the obsessive counting and touching, rocking was not a mandatory but a voluntary and highly pleasurable exercise," p. 12.
"Danger was everywhere and it was our father's lifelong duty to warn us," p. 47.
"After a while we began to wonder if my father had any friends who could still tie their own shoes or breathe without the aid of a respirator." p. 49.
"It seemed that anyone could solve a murder as long as he had a telephone, a few hours of spare time, and a wet bar," p. 62.
"I was at the orthodontist's office, placing a pox upon the practice of dentistry, when the visiting actor returned to the classroom," p. 98.
"Were I to receive a riding vacuum cleaner or even a wizened proboscis monkey, it wouldn't please me half as much as knowing we were the only family in the neighborhood with a prostitute in our kitchen...
This section contains 414 words (approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page) |