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socks shamelessly copulate in the hamper every night, ensuring an endless supply of sock orphans
 

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Orphans - and sock orphans are no exception - miss their siblings and nearest of kin.
 

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Kin is a sensitive subject among socks, due to the constant re-pairing, recycling and/or grand hamper-clearing and orphan-cleansing campaigns visited upon them by their human owners.
 

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Owners of upstanding socks should respect their inalienable right to remain with their partners.
 

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Alone at last, she opened a bottle of wine and prepared to enjoy a well-earned drink.
 

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Here we go again, thought Jo, as he clasped his pistol in both hands and aimed at the intruder.
 

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Intruder by night, trespasser by day.
 
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'Altered states of awareness can be induced by these shiny little pills,' he said with a grin, 'I highly recommend the triangular green ones.'
 

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Ones can lead to twos, which can lead to threes, which can lead to fours ad infinitum!
 

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'Ad infinitum' was the name I gave my third novel, which landed me the Nobel Prize for Literature.
 

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Literature, as in all of the fine arts, is noteworthy when it has withstood the test of time.
 
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"Pokes me and runs off with my wallet, and there was five bucks in it," Lem said to the sheriff.
 

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Shrugged shoulders may indicate feelings of despair, confusion, or a resolved acceptance depending on one's perspective.