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Also, by now I know all my hold-out objects inside out--how to coax my old lamp to light, how to retrieve the rewind button when it falls into my tape player. I can't find jeans that fit me as well as my old ones do any-more. They've adjusted to me and I to them, to the point where we fit each other perfectly...
...somebody's got to ask: What was up with those monstrous turkey drumsticks we had for lunch yesterday? They looked like something out of a medieval feast at King Arthur's roundtable, and they tasted like they'd been sitting around under a heat lamp since then...
Nino said Thompson stole her new 13-inch color TV, a VCR, stereo, computer printer, new downhill skis and boots, as well as smaller items, like a floor lamp and sleeping bags. "Even the things I did recover looked like a herd of wild elephants had trampled over them," Nino said...
...voluntarily crammed into the filthy hold of a ship for months at sea until it finally foundered off a Long Island beach, drowning six. In many ways they epitomized the "wretched refuse" of teeming foreign shores for whom, in Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, the Statue of Liberty lifts her lamp beside the Golden Door...
...then there are the stars. The Bledsoes, the Webbers, the Kariyas. The guys that can light the lamp, the scoreboard, even the fireplace for touchdowns, hoops and goals...