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If’n ya gots to hab a rule to tells ya wha’s good, if’n ya gots to hab good ’splained to ya, den ya cain’t be good. If’n ya need sum kinda God to tells ya right from wrong, den you won’t never know.
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“They even do the cakewalk.”
“But that’s how we make fun of them,” I said.
“Yes, but they don’t get that—it’s lost on them. It’s never occurred to them that we might find them mockable.”
“Double irony,” I said.
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I saw the surface of her, merely the outer shell, and realized that she was mere surface all the way to her core.
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If one knows hell as home, then is returning to hell a homecoming?
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