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...control. Everyone in the house is awake at 12:30. I don't know if we'll ever sleep today. I just can't hold on too long. Every day I think of leaving a message to some friends and teachers and throwing myself from the school's roof. I always think of that. How about my sisters? If I die it will be better because it was gonna happen anyway . . . Things will be much easier away from him, my life, my school work, my health and my eyes. I hate. I have to kill him someday, take his brains...
...stockings and battered shoes that barely contained the fat of their feet. He followed small children as they hopped over stoops and banged on garbage cans. He zeroed in on the eyeballs of men coming home from work. He knew someone across the street had seen him on the roof with the rifle, probably saw him now, aiming it, checking the lever action, and adjusting the crosshairs on the scope. He didn't care. Apparently they didn't either...
...estate know, the best investment is in facts, details, odds and ends of the real world. There is little doubt that most of the + brutal and absurd acts that the author embellishes can be documented in newspapers and police blotters. If you think it is impossible to steal a roof, check it out. Is Glynn exaggerating when he writes headlines like LANDLORD TOSSES OUT EPILEPTIC AND DEAF-MUTE . . . SHE SHAKES, HE CAN'T HEAR, THEY GET BOOT? Only slightly...
...then the roof caved in, and the Engineers went on to hand Harvard its third loss in its last four outings, 77-58, dropping the hoopsters to 4-3 on the season...
This tiny version of the building, which entered the Washington-based National Register of Historic Places in 1978, is a scale replica in colorful ceramic. When the removable roof is lifted, the mechanism inside plays "Yo ho, the Good Ship Harvard...