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Off to a good start for #firstlinefriday

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“The power of John Donne‘s words nearly killed a man.“

-- Katherine Rundell, _Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne_

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“By the time Professor Richard Lovell found his way through Canton‘s narrow alleys to the faded address in his diary, the boy was the only one in the house left alive.“

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“The server brings over two bowls of hot udon. I look at my daughter as she grabs chopsticks and spoons from the box of utensils. She looks tired, or thinner, or older.“

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"Abigail St. Clair gazed at the Delaware River shimmering in the morning mist, the road to Philadelphia twisting beside it."

It was the first time that an oil drum had washed up on the scattered pebbles of the island shore. Other items had arrived over the years--ragged shirts, bits of rope,, . . . There had been bodies, too, as there was today. The length of it stretched out beside the drum, one hand reaching forward as though to indicate that they had made the journey together and did not now wish to be parted.

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Kelp was the key to America.

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I love the back and forth between hope and despair in this collection.

On a warm and breezy night in August 1834, a group of white men, nearly one hundred strong, gathered on Seventh Street, between Shippen and Fitzwater, in Philadelphia.

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What an opening line! 😳
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