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blue sky with clouds
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in the vast chasm of absence, he longed like a drowning man for oxygen, to hear her voice. he held the memory of her breathy sigh laying beside her in the vanilla scented bed. her nakedness. her velvet body.
and so he ripped a hole in the curtain of time that did not belong to him, found 35 cents in the ashtray of his pick-up truck and rung her. she was there, just back from the garden picking coneflowers, and yes, she would see him monday. she must.
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celestopia
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i was amazed when i got to quebec and realized the payphones were ten cents cheaper than they were out west.
yay socialist government..
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oldephebe
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bswc - awesome evocations
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celestias shadow
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it makes me so pissed that pay phones are now 50 cents. Nobody is worth 50 cents to talk to. FUCK YOU, Verizon, you stupid corporate bastards! *goes off on a rant about Verizon and overpriced calls*
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endless desire
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i just don't have 50 cents. that's half way to a dollar. with a dollar, i could buy cookies. but i don't want cookies so i don't need a dollar, so i don't mind giving you a call. but what if i do and i get your machine? well then i could leave a message, but i truly just wasted 50 cents. so then i use 50 cents to call the cell. . .i should have done that in the first place. well i get the fing message machine. . .NOW i've wasted a dollar and two warm hot cookies have gone down the drain--even if i wasn't going to eat them. and then, you pull up and i should have had more patience in the first place. then i could have purchased cookies that i wouldn't have eaten. but i could have mailed them to africe where starving children would get a kick out of them. however, i doubt they would be warm any more. . .
poor african children. my family is planning on adopting a girl from africa. we started things up, but it takes years. i'm so excited though. a friend of mine was adopted from ethiopia when she was 10 or so and now she is 21 and in college and so happy. her mum killed herself when she was little and things were rough where she was. she said she experienced major culture shock when she arrived here though. the strangest thing to her was ATM machines. . .
which brings me back to that buck i wasted making a phone call.
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sabbie
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everyone holds a picture in their heads
the quintessential image
of everyone they know
and mine
is of her
squatting down in a telephone booth
in a small town
in the middle of nowhere
at 3am
looking just like ani
on an international
adventure
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imposter
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I remember when I first discovered telephones cost 35 cents. I was outside of a play, and I needed to be picked up. I had 25 cents to call home, but it wouldn’t work because suddenly I saw that he call cost 35. I had to call home collect, and they weren’t happy. Poor little boy. And when it got raised to 50, well, that was just complete and total disillusionment. I was outside of an IN-N-OUT and needed to make a call – I forget why – so I walked over to this store where payphones were. And I got there, and I didn’t have enough change because I had barely scrounged together 35 cents to begin with. For some reason, I think I’ll always remember that day in particular, when payphones started to cost 50 cents. It was so . . .saddening. I felt like everything in the world had changed while I was asleep.
That was of course years ago, when I was very young still. Little did I know then how much the world really could change, as I’m finding out now.
But still, that 50 cents. . . that was a big thing for me. Symbolism for teens 101
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