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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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