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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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they got crabs at shelters

"The other thing I'm not doing is going to any beeping shelter," Ma said. "They got crabs at shelters."

"When we first started dating I had crabs from that shelter," Harris said helpfully.

—p.190 Tenth of December Home (169) by George Saunders
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household in freefall

Must not alienate Jerry in slightest way.

God.

Household in freefall, future reader. Everything chaotic. Kids, feeling tension, fighting all day. After dinner, Pam caught kids watching "I, Gropius," (forbidden) = show where guy decides which girl to date based on feeling girls' breasts throug…

—p.165 The Semplica Girl Diaries (109) by George Saunders
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legit Americans

[...] SGs become illegal immigrants, take jobs away from "legit Americans." Jerry very much against. Jerry's father came from Ireland on boat, vomiting whole trip, then filled out required forms. This = proper way, Jerry feels.

Ha ha, he says.

—p.162 The Semplica Girl Diaries (109) by George Saunders
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shall we wake up?

[...] Scary guy. Very intense. Sermon: Why this surprising? Did you think you were going to live forever? Only difference between you, sitting there anticipating rest of your day, and Todd, in coffin, bound for eternal home in cold earth? Is heartbeat. Feel that, people? In your chests? That is thi…

—p.147 The Semplica Girl Diaries (109) by George Saunders