If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.
Dolores Hitchens
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Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.
Dolores Hitchens
3.
Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.
Dolores Hitchens
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I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.