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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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