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“Maybe even jam cake,” Beowulf added wistfully, and began to drool.

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Gibson talks wistfully about their teen years, coming out, dating — they remain friends with all their exes — and being bullied.

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"If you do cyber-crime long enough you lose your edge," he says, wistfully.

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In this, Jen’s 10th book, she wistfully, unsparingly commemorates that “spring” — a punishing mother she nevertheless credits for “biting my heel.”

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So the album opens with the familiar, always timeless voice of Steve Earle, telling the story of Hopper’s childhood, wistfully looking at the trains heading west and dreaming of the future.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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