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It hadn’t always been this way, that’s a cliché, but it is a cliché for a reason. It’s not like anyone starts a relationship with nothing to say to the other person. No-one wants to feel like a complete stranger and live together because it’s easier than trying to remember who owns the copy of Almost Famous — which was mine by the way.David Louden
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Wriggling around, two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his girlfriend’s nether region I wrestled a fifty free.David Louden
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Propping up a seat at the bar we devour chicken wings like life does dreamsDavid Louden
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With the windows in his top of the range Audi firmly in place we slowly baked ourselves and chatted over why my hatred of golf was wrong, what made a good antihero and why Paul McCartney should just fuck off.David Louden
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One way or another we’re taking your bank. All you have to do is decide the level of persuasion we need to apply.David Louden
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How was it they had cut to Hollywood Boulevard for a fluff piece and ended up with Gangs of New-Fucking-York?! Bonnie looked to her co- Anchor. He was wearing a good mouth for cooling soup.David Louden
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Marilyn Monroe is pissing me off, Charlie Chaplin owes me twenty bucks, that fucker Shrek tried to fuck my girlfriend at Baskin Robbins.David Louden
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Every little prick out there wants me to lift them. I had this one kid from Oklahoma, big fat shitter he was. Legs as fat as a Downers forehead screaming Up, up, Hulk up! at me for ten minutes until I had no other choice. Fat fucker damn near put my back out and then his old man stiffs me with Canadian dollars. Canadian, can you believe that shit?!David Louden
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They stood either side of him like haunting little genetic bookends. The one thing he’ll leave behind, two kids who called another man for help with their homework.David Louden
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The boulevard was awash with the curious and the shocked as wave after wave of tourist crashed into the unmoving masses of families who had just witnessed a brawl between The Incredible Hulk and SpongeBob Squarepants over territory, boundaries and the age old issue of ownership.David Louden
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It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed.David Louden
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He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics.David Louden
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So you’re the little smart ass from Poleglass.”I wanted to point out he sounded like Dr. Seuss but bit my lip and remembered the warning the old lady gave me.David Louden
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He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.David Louden
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Self-awareness is the most overrated trick in the book. More than ambition, more than free will, more than getting on to the property ladder early. Right now I should be at the Little Hills, you probably just call them the Hills, right?David Louden
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Prose before hoes, muthafucka! I’ll be right over.David Louden
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I’m super, it’s like my favourite meal and a birthday blowjob from Christina Hendricks in here.David Louden