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Jersey Posted 20 years ago
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01.She thought Roger Clinton was nothing but trouble. She was right about the trouble part, but not the “nothing but.” There was 01u00more to him than that02u00, which makes his story even sadder.02br
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002.but he couldn’t ever quite break free of the shadows of self-doubt, the phony security of binge drinking and adolescent partying, and the 01u00isolation from and02u00 verbal abuse of Mother that kept him from becoming the man he might have been. 02br
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003.I had never heard a shot fired before, 01u00much less02u00 seen one.02br
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004.Although she had only one arm, she didn’t believe in sparing the rod, or, in her case, the paddle, into 01u00which she had bored holes to cut down on the wind resistance.02u02br
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She thought Roger Clinton was nothing but trouble. 02br 02br 01font 00At the beginning, she thought that R. C.

  • She thought Roger Clinton was nothing but trouble.
  • 02br 02br 01font 00At the beginning, she thought that R.
  • C.
  • would only bring/cause her problems.
  • She was partly right: he could/would?
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01.She thought Roger Clinton was nothing but trouble. She was right about the trouble part, but not the “nothing but.” There was 01u00more to him than that02u00, which makes his story even sadder.02br
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01font00At the beginning, she thought that R. C. would only bring/cause her problems. She was partly right: he could/would?
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03.I had never heard a shot fired before, 01u00much less02u00 seen one.02br
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01font00I had 01b00seen 02b00a shot fired still less often than I had heard one fired. (less often than never). So, never never never.02font0-
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01font002.but he couldn’t ever quite break free of the shadows of self-doubt, the phony security of binge drinking and adolescent partying, and the 01u00isolation from and02u00 verbal abuse of Mother that kept him from becoming the man he might have been. 02font02br
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