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Peering up at the trees, still leafless due to an uncommonly long cold winter, she was reminded of one of Simone’s positive outlooks—tree lace.

trees
 

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Many trees’ leaves had begun to change one crisp afternoon on a gorgeous Memphis day as Palmer was operating the “Crosstown” run on the return leg toward downtown.

gorgeous
 

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“Wow, Simone, you look fantastic, you’re more gorgeous than ever!” He ogled her hungrily, focussing on the edging of her white-lace shorts showing off her gorgeous thighs.

white
 

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He stood up there at the front of the room, pale, with a patchy white untrimmed beard, wearing a voluminous gauzy pastel cardigan, blinking his watery blue eyes at the audience from behind thick glasses.

blink
 

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Hockey and basketball playing on multiple flat screens held eyes captive, while winning numbers blinked on illuminated Keno boards.

illuminate
 

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My mind flipped back and forth between what I confusedly imagined the inside of my mouth looked like (pooling, foamy, dark but somehow illuminated like a cave as if there were chinks in it) and a hall of mirrors, you know, a maze where all the walls are mirrors.

confuse/confusing
 

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"We used to make them à la polonaise, in sour cream, but since Chloe doesn’t live here anymore, no one eats them but me, and you probably wouldn’t like them that way.”

sour