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Fly Like An Eagle
Mr Paripable just pulled in his driveway with a truck full of pennies. How do you know that? He dropped the tailgate and it’s all pennies in the bed.
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REST AREA
So weird going seventy eight miles an hour sitting still.
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A Spectacular Sadness
From Cape Flattery, Tatoosh Island and Lighthouse, The Water Between is Hole in the Wall.
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The Elmore
1890 Tugboat For Sale
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On Seas of Untranquiliti
Memory Vault on Artillery Hill Eight years ago a depressed man climbed forty feet up a Douglas Fir tree on Artillery Hill, strung his hammock in the…
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Dispatch from The Blue Moose
* At night a tug with a tow shows yellow white lights stacked vertically on a mast.
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Turmeric Refill
Edited from the Original for Reading Aloud
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