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Next time you talk to one of your "grand pa's or aunt and uncle" ask them, if you can help them around their house, in exchange for consideration to go fishin 'with them.
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Lucien -- perhaps because he was old school, perhaps because he experienced a whiff of culture before it was totally defined by snap shots, perhaps poised by grand pa's rich mind -- was able to live a long and personal arc alongside and in spite of his simulacrum.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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Lucien -- perhaps because he was old school, perhaps because he experienced a whiff of culture before it was totally defined by snap shots, perhaps poised by grand pa's rich mind -- was able to live a long and personal arc alongside and in spite of his simulacrum.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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Lucien -- perhaps because he was old school, perhaps because he experienced a whiff of culture before it was totally defined by snap shots, perhaps poised by grand pa's rich mind -- was able to live a long and personal arc alongside and in spite of his simulacrum.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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Lucien -- perhaps because he was old school, perhaps because he experienced a whiff of culture before it was totally defined by snap shots, perhaps poised by grand pa's rich mind -- was able to live a long and personal arc alongside and in spite of his simulacrum.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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Next time you talk to one of your "grand pa's or aunt and uncle" ask them, if you can help them around their house, in exchange for consideration to go fishin 'with them.
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I know all about your pappy and your mammy, your big fat sister and your little brother Sammy, your auntie and your uncle and your ma's and pa's, they all got drunk and showed their Santa Claus
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And it's good that you would want to help your family this way, but at the end of the summer your pa's bill will be paid in full.
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And it's good that you would want to help your family this way, but at the end of the summer your pa's bill will be paid in full.
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After their pa's accident - when he couldn't work as a choker in the woods any more - he'd taken his frustration out on the boys.
Murder by Six Andreychuk, Nick 2003
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