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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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