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Old 10-01-2009, 02:41 AM   #276
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Of all the mistakes mankind had made, this one was the worst.
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Old 10-01-2009, 04:38 AM   #277
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Old 10-01-2009, 09:43 PM   #278
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Each one fell from my body like a snowflake, thought Eddie, surveying the pile of dead skin cells that spanned his five-decade collection.
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Old 10-04-2009, 03:07 AM   #280
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Hey, Thing...eating dead skin cells is what dust mites are for. If it wasn't for them we'd have been miles deep in dead skin cells centuries ago.
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Old 10-04-2009, 03:20 PM   #281
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Yes, FOTSGreg, you are correct. But Eddie has been collecting them.
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Old 10-16-2009, 06:45 PM   #282
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Old 10-21-2009, 06:42 AM   #283
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Old 10-24-2009, 11:51 PM   #284
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"Our world is ending" was what the paper read...If only I had understood what they were telling me, but the cancer had already spilled into to our world as well.
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Old 10-29-2009, 08:02 AM   #286
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Old 10-29-2009, 08:03 AM   #287
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Old 10-30-2009, 03:47 AM   #288
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They came to our planet to rut.

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Mars doesn't need women, but the Martians sure do like ours.

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First goddamn week a' winter...

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Old 11-01-2009, 11:55 PM   #289
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Old 11-02-2009, 03:09 AM   #290
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