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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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