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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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