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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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