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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 -.........
........-~         about myself, and my life        ~-........
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