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Posted: Jan 15, 2015 - 7:23am

 miamizsun wrote:
Classic short story by American master Ambrose Bierce.

Kurt Vonnegut called this story the greatest short story in American literature.

 

I really liked this 1962 French version that was originally introduced as a Twilight Zone episode also.


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Posted: Jan 15, 2015 - 5:08am

Classic short story by American master Ambrose Bierce.

Kurt Vonnegut called this story the greatest short story in American literature.




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Posted: Apr 21, 2011 - 10:48pm

 oldviolin wrote:


Is she holding a hypodermic??? Because, if she is...
 
Jim Pluckett, you got you some ringworm. 
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Posted: Apr 21, 2011 - 10:07pm

 Manbird wrote:
Oldviolin (Jim Puckett) and Evelyn Knudsen: June, 1964
Evelyn made soup for OV after she enlisted his help to rearrange
her living room furniture.  Evelyn moved from Tuscon to Lakewood, CO
and worked as a teller for the BCU credit union where she met Oldviolin.



 

 

Is she holding a hypodermic??? Because, if she is...
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Posted: Apr 21, 2011 - 7:15pm

 Manbird wrote:
Oldviolin (Jim Puckett) and Evelyn Knudsen: June, 1964
Evelyn made soup for OV after she enlisted his help to rearrange
her living room furniture.  Evelyn moved from Tuscon to Lakewood, CO
and worked as a teller for the BCU credit union where she met Oldviolin.



 

 
So, who's Debbi?
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Posted: Apr 21, 2011 - 5:20pm

Oldviolin (Jim Puckett) and Evelyn Knudsen: June, 1964
Evelyn made soup for OV after she enlisted his help to rearrange
her living room furniture.  Evelyn moved from Tuscon to Lakewood, CO
and worked as a teller for the BCU credit union where she met Oldviolin.



 


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