there were simple things; ways in which he might have avoided later unpleasantness: pick your lovers with caution, avoid those who carry their past like luggage from one destination to the next, avoid random sentence breaks, avoid long dark nights of the poem, judiciously monitor every sentence that closely follows a colon. but then, later that night, drunk on 2 dollar pitchers, the blue rivers of norman mclean, and the east texas of rick bass, all the rules were broken.Birth sign: Taurus
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