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l. Her eyes were like twp brew circles wath big black dats in the center.
3. Her face was a perfect aural, like a circle that had its two sides gently
by a
A. Fram the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal
quality, like when Yau' re nu vacating in anuther city and Jeopardy comes on at
T-. 00 pam- instead of 7: 30.
s. jam and Mary had never met. They were like me hummingbirds wha: had also
never met.
5. She had a deep, thruway, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just
hetare up-
7. The ballerina ruse gracefully en and extended tine slender leg behind
her, like a ting at a fire hydrant.
E- He was as Ia. n' as a duck: Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real
duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping an a land mine In
samething.
I Her was as bad as, like, whatever-
ID. She grew EHW him like she was a pf E. cell and he was ramm-
Canadian beef.
The revelation that his marriage 30 years had disintegrated because " his
wife' s infidelity came as a rude shtick, like a surcharge at a formerly
surch mg eehee ATM.
The lamppost haithere, like an inanimate abject.