i'm free

"do you know that if finding nemo was real, and it actually happened with real fish, the father would have turned into a girl when the mom dies." - the check out person at duane reade, to their co-worker

who cut down annie's tree??

"don't let them in"

i guess people do all sorts of things when they are by themselves.

the eleven-year-old that i babysit likes to smell the pages of books when he thinks no one is watching.  i know this because while i was being paid to watch him, he was in the kitchen thinking that no one was watching him.  he sat at the kitchen table with some pretzels and cheese. he swallowed a lactaid pill.  he took a bite of his snack while he thumbed through a stack of books on the table.  he opened up an over-sized anthology of garfield comics.  he flipped to a page in the center. he leaned his head back, then buried his nose into the book's spine, taking a long inhale before turning the page for the next plunge. he repeated this gesture seven or eight times, taking bites of pretzels and cheese intermittently.  

i thought no one was watching me all day. i wonder how many people saw me masturbate.

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the thing about love is,