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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too

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sure brought to you by broken homes There nothing a

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good cock gun won't fix much easier than the others

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All right check out the following passage from anna karina

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by leo tolstoy Look company you were to use it

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just a lot russian novels russian writers a lot of

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words and letters last name's pronounce that you go on

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wheel of fortune like we'd read the following selection from

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paragraph one right here every person in the house felt

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that there was no sense in their living together and

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that the stray people brought together by chance in any

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inn had more in common with one another than they

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The members of the family and household of the babylon

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skis and jablonski quote above illustrates that thea blonsky is

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what and here the potential answers Well yeah looks like

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things aren't so great at the avalon skis but what

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kind of not great are we talking about here Well

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we can't sign off on option c there's no denying

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that things are pretty terrible for the abh lansky's Sad

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as it is we can't know for sure if things

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were ever any better for all we know these people

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were miserable before the affair after all their characters in

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a russian novel and like what do you expect B

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isn't going to make the cut either Yablonski zehr having

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a major crisis but the passage doesn't say that they're

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thinking about getting divorced though from the sounds of it

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divorces in exactly unlikely option D doesn't work because it's

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too general the family isn't dealing so well with this

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particular conflict but that doesn't mean that they don't know

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howto handle all conflict Maybe they do just fine when

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the fight is over who gets the last scoop Vorster

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whatever that is the right answer is a yablonski They're

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in a state of confusion in the wake of stefan's

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affair like strangers in an end they feel like they

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have nothing in common Hey what If mr and mrs

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ah blonsky play that game where they pretend like they

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don't know each other and flirt like strangers number like

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if you like pia coladas does that song Remember that

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weight that mean they'd both be cheating cheating on each

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other with each other Forget it We'll stick to shmoop

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