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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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