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I am slowly carving myself out of stone.
Chipping away at the excess.
Until I am all that is left.

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“Take a look at this.” I said hefting my laptop over to my wife. We were sitting in bed and she was watching Monk. “No,” she said, “I want to watch this.” “C’mon,” I said, “It’s really short. It won’t take long to read.” She took the computer reluctantly and started reading what I had [...]