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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Amy Hempel
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December 14, 1951
(age 73)
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