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Jake's women by Neil Simon. The interesting dilemma. Here is not why is Karen irritating me now. But why am I making her irritate me? I'm irritating you now, aren't I a little? It's nothing. It's a mind exercise. I keep writing in my head like magicians twirl a coin over their fingers. Don't write me jake. Let me be me. You have such a distorted picture of me these days. I do. Where did you find this dress? I'm wearing. This dress is not me. Bette Midler does a concert in a dress like this. I'm sorry I was working. I didn't have time to go shopping for clothes, Karen, I wanted to talk to you now. I need advice and you're the only one in the world who can help me now, would you? Of course I want to hear. I care about you. I worry about you. You're my brother. I love you. See, that's a good speech. That's how I should talk. Giving caring, nurturing, make a note of that. So what is it jake? Tell me what's wrong? I think Maggie is getting ready to leave me. Don't tell me no. Oh, God! Why? What happened? A lot of things that never should have happened. Alright, well, don't jump to conclusions. Don't try to guess what's going on in someone else's mind. I used to worry that Harry was going to leave me too. But he did leave you because I kept saying you're going to leave me one day? I know it and it drove him crazy. Besides, we had big problems. You and Maggie had eight good years together. She loves you. That I would bet my life on. She's been seeing another man. I'm such a bad judge of character. Are you positive jake? It's someone new in her office. I don't know if he means something to her or if it's just a symptom of what's wrong with us? What is wrong with you? Something stopped. I am so depressed. Is there something wrong with our family? Jake? Mom got divorced. Pop got divorced. I got divorced. Now you're getting divorced, Mom and pop is one divorce and I'm not divorced yet. Don't make it an epidemic. Karen. Have you been seeing anyone? Me? No. You haven't been seeing another woman. Didn't I just say no. Who's the other woman? An actress? About a year ago. It only lasted about three weeks. You mean if it's under a month, it's not an affair. Every man in America is looking for a calendar like that alexander Hamilton's by Ron Chernow! In the early 18 fifties, few pedestrians strolling past the house on H street in Washington, near the White House realized that the ancient widows seated by the window knitting and arranging flowers. Was the last surviving link to the glory days of the early Republic, 50 years earlier on, Iraqi, secluded ledge overlooking the Hudson River in Weehawken New Jersey. Aaron Burr, The Vice President of the United States had fired a mortal shot at her husband, alexander Hamilton's in a misbegotten effort to remove the man were regarded as the main impediment to the advancement of his career. Hambleton was then 49 years old. Was it a benign or cruel destiny that had compelled the widow to outlive her husband by half a century, struggling to raise seven Children and surviving until almost the eve of the Civil War Elizabeth, Skylar Hambleton, for blind and deaf but gallant to the end, was a stoic woman who never yielded to self pity. All the birds in the sky by charlie jane Anders. When Patricia was six years old, she found a wounded bird. The sparrow thrashed on top of a pile of wet red leaves in the crook of two roots waving. It's crushed wing crying in a pitch almost too high for Patricia to here she looked into the sparrows, I enveloped by a dark stripe, and she saw its fear not just fear, but also misery, as if this bird knew it would die soon. Patricia still didn't understand how the life could just go out of someone's body forever. But she could tell this bird was fighting against death with everything it had. Patricia vowed, with all her heart to do everything in her power to save this bird. This was what led to Patricia being asked a question with no good answer which marked her for life. She scooped up the sparrow with a dry leaf very gently, and laid it in her red bucket rays of the afternoon sun came at the bucket horizontally, bathing the bird and red lights? So it looked radioactive. The bird was still whipping around trying to fly with one wing. It's okay, Patricia told the bird I've got you. It's okay. Harry potter and the half blood Prince by J. K. Rowling not to worry. It's odds on. You'll never see me again. I'll only bother you if there's something really serious going on on our end, something that's likely to affect the muggles, the non magical population, I should say otherwise. It's live and let live. And I must say you're taking it a lot better than your predecessor. He tried to throw me out the window. I thought I was a hoax planned by the opposition at this. The Prime Minister had found his voice at last. You're you're not a hoax then. It had been his last desperate hope. No, said fudge gently. No, I'm afraid I'm not. Look! And he had turned the Prime Minister's teacup into a gerbil, but said the Prime Minister, breathlessly, watching his teacup, chewing on the corner of his next speech. But why, why has nobody told me The Minister of magic only reveals him or herself to the muggle? Prime Minister of the day? Said fudge, poking his wand back inside his jacket. We find it best to maintain secrecy. But then plated the Prime Minister. Why hasn't a former Prime Minister? Warned me at this fudge had actually laughed. My dear Prime Minister. Are you ever going to tell anybody?