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....--\=$#           ..#$ an anecdote $#..          #$=\--....
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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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