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...-\%@### today it rained,  and i would go outside ###@%\-...
....-\%@## i thought,  so i  smoked a pipe and  got ##@%\-....
.....-\%@# dressed,  and  outside  the   rain   had #@%\-.....
......-\%@ turned into  snow so  thick  that it was @%\-......
.......-\% as dense  fog ... and then i went to get %\-.......
........-\ the mail, but  there was  a woman and we \-........
.........- talked a  little. now because i was high -.........
.......... and it was  snowing so funny and  i  had ..........
.........- an umbrella  against the  snow, but snow -.........
........-\ all over my  face anyway, and i wondered \-........
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