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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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