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ITT Books that made you cry.

Where the Red Fern Grows Romans (Bible lol) The Road The ...
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
What part of Romans made you cry? (I'm guessing either 5, 8,...
wonderful house
  10/17/18
You nailed it, yes 5 and 8.
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
180!
wonderful house
  10/17/18
Only KJV can have this effect.
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
I think ESV also has value, but I agree the KJV is often mor...
wonderful house
  10/17/18
Especially if you've grown up reading a specific version. KJ...
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
CR, and many of them are heretical trash that dilutes or alt...
wonderful house
  10/17/18
ran here for Where the Red Fern Grows
ruby business firm idea he suggested
  10/17/18
Solid list. Never cried at a book, but the closest were Old ...
wonderful house
  10/17/18
I can't dwell on the thought of ANY harm coming to a dog wit...
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
The Remains of the Day
Translucent disgusting station
  10/17/18
very cr I wouldn't say I "cried" but my eyes defi...
Fragrant bronze indian lodge pocket flask
  10/17/18
Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Member of th...
Brindle filthy useless brakes
  10/17/18
Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Fragrant bronze indian lodge pocket flask
  10/17/18
damn auf Deutsch?
Garnet irradiated multi-billionaire school cafeteria
  10/17/18
sadly, no, I fucking wish. Could read him, Nietzsche, "...
Fragrant bronze indian lodge pocket flask
  10/17/18
check out Immensee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immensee_(...
Garnet irradiated multi-billionaire school cafeteria
  10/17/18
ty, will check it out truly unreal the sexual power women h...
Fragrant bronze indian lodge pocket flask
  10/17/18
...
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
wtrfg is tcr charlottes web a separate peace
balding bespoke rehab
  10/17/18
The Joy Luck Club
Bossy black casino private investor
  10/17/18
My mother and aunt both fucking love this book. Why?
wonderful house
  10/17/18
yeah i cried when i read this book too, because it was so fu...
comical jap
  10/17/18
this is far more coherent with my 4 pages of experience with...
wonderful house
  10/17/18
What Happened
spruce bateful box office newt
  10/17/18
...
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
...
insanely creepy mood
  10/17/18
forgot to add Fox and the Hound
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
blood meridian ulysses dasher
duck-like histrionic public bath
  10/17/18
Explain what part of Blood Meridian made you cry.
wonderful house
  10/17/18
is Ulysses a tough read?
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
No. It's not always engaging, but it's not dense or anything...
wonderful house
  10/17/18
thank
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
I remember reading "Bridge to Terabithia" for a mi...
Garnet irradiated multi-billionaire school cafeteria
  10/17/18
The American Restatement of Torts, Second
beady-eyed snowy water buffalo dopamine
  10/17/18
Chambers Associate: The Student's Guide to Law Firms
Scarlet stock car
  10/17/18
restatements were a breath of fresh air compared to casebook...
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
the giving tree
Orange vibrant den trump supporter
  10/17/18
forgot about this one
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
cr poast above was just lazy flame, but I'd forgotten abo...
duck-like histrionic public bath
  10/17/18
vsg! answer me pls: http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thre...
wonderful house
  10/17/18
Flowers for Algernon Of Mice & Men
fighting diverse macaca
  10/17/18
did you cry bc Steinbeck is such a godawful writer and they ...
180 pit
  10/17/18
It was 9th grade. I teared up because the guy shot Lenny.
fighting diverse macaca
  10/17/18
Steinbeck is 180. What makes you consider him bad? Do you...
wonderful house
  10/17/18
yes
180 pit
  10/17/18
poast them fgt
wonderful house
  10/17/18
"Faggots" by Larry Kramer
razzle chestnut ceo
  10/17/18
...
duck-like histrionic public bath
  10/17/18
The art of racing in the rain
cobalt impressive trailer park shitlib
  10/17/18
American Psycho and Journey to the End of the Night
Indigo Hideous Volcanic Crater Main People
  10/17/18
synergistic
duck-like histrionic public bath
  10/17/18
do you happen to remember the American Psycho chapter?
Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard
  10/17/18
Don't recall the exact chapter, but it's toward the end when...
Indigo Hideous Volcanic Crater Main People
  10/17/18
is that "we buy balloons, we let them go"?
Sickened generalized bond feces
  10/17/18
No, although I think that’s in the same chapter and pa...
Indigo Hideous Volcanic Crater Main People
  10/17/18
Imperium by Robert Harris
submissive space clown
  10/17/18
"You Are a Fag" by A. Pederast
passionate poppy coffee pot faggot firefighter
  10/17/18
...
submissive space clown
  10/17/18
...
Exhilarant toaster fanboi
  10/17/18
Closest were probably Atonement, Independence Day, Never Let...
vigorous stag film
  10/17/18
Big hardcover of Magic Eye puzzles. Moms bf beat me with it ...
Charismatic menage
  10/17/18
180
Electric Theater Cuckold
  10/17/18
"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver always gets me, not ...
Sickened generalized bond feces
  10/17/18
Is that the one with the blind person? He really was an incr...
Charismatic menage
  10/17/18
yes
Sickened generalized bond feces
  10/17/18
180 brother
Charismatic menage
  10/17/18
Shiloh.
Out-of-control smoky piazza fat ankles
  10/17/18
I read The Road shortly after having my son -- can't recall ...
Lavender gaming laptop
  10/17/18
Culture of Critique
comical jap
  10/17/18


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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:32 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

Where the Red Fern Grows

Romans (Bible lol)

The Road

The Brother Karamazov



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37039960)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:49 AM
Author: wonderful house

What part of Romans made you cry? (I'm guessing either 5, 8, or 3.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040066)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:18 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

You nailed it, yes 5 and 8.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040205)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:23 AM
Author: wonderful house

180!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040230)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:21 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

Only KJV can have this effect.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040222)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:23 AM
Author: wonderful house

I think ESV also has value, but I agree the KJV is often more moving.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040234)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:40 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

Especially if you've grown up reading a specific version. KJV is indelible in the hippocampus for me. There's too many versions now to keep up with.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040308)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:54 AM
Author: wonderful house

CR, and many of them are heretical trash that dilutes or alters the meaning of the text.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040351)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:47 PM
Author: ruby business firm idea he suggested

ran here for Where the Red Fern Grows

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37042824)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:37 AM
Author: wonderful house

Solid list. Never cried at a book, but the closest were Old Yeller and Where The Red Fern Grows. Read them in quick succession when I was 8-9 and choked up at the end of each one, but decided crying over books was for pussies and I wasn't gonna give in. Oh the simplicity of childhood.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37039985)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:43 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

I can't dwell on the thought of ANY harm coming to a dog without tearing up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040022)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:37 AM
Author: Translucent disgusting station

The Remains of the Day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37039991)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:42 AM
Author: Fragrant bronze indian lodge pocket flask

very cr

I wouldn't say I "cried" but my eyes definitely welled up at the end

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040019)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:41 AM
Author: Brindle filthy useless brakes

Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Member of the wedding, Haunted boy

James Joyce: Dubliners

Tony Kushner: Angels in America

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040017)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:42 AM
Author: Fragrant bronze indian lodge pocket flask

Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040020)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:45 AM
Author: Garnet irradiated multi-billionaire school cafeteria

damn

auf Deutsch?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040031)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:49 AM
Author: Fragrant bronze indian lodge pocket flask

sadly, no, I fucking wish. Could read him, Nietzsche, "I and Thou" by Buber, Hegel, etc. in the original, but no dice.

Still, even in translation, the words just float off the page while carrying weight, like dark clouds heavy with rain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040067)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:52 AM
Author: Garnet irradiated multi-billionaire school cafeteria

check out Immensee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immensee_(novella)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040087)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:59 AM
Author: Fragrant bronze indian lodge pocket flask

ty, will check it out

truly unreal the sexual power women have over men. It is their one advantage, but it is terrifying.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040125)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:46 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040038)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:45 AM
Author: balding bespoke rehab

wtrfg is tcr

charlottes web

a separate peace

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040034)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:45 AM
Author: Bossy black casino private investor

The Joy Luck Club

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040035)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:46 AM
Author: wonderful house

My mother and aunt both fucking love this book. Why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040044)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:22 PM
Author: comical jap

yeah i cried when i read this book too, because it was so fucking bad that it was psychologically painful to force myself to finish it for school

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043132)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:23 PM
Author: wonderful house

this is far more coherent with my 4 pages of experience with it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043141)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:46 AM
Author: spruce bateful box office newt

What Happened

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040042)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:47 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040052)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:03 AM
Author: insanely creepy mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040151)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:47 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

forgot to add Fox and the Hound

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040048)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:50 AM
Author: duck-like histrionic public bath

blood meridian

ulysses

dasher

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040076)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:52 AM
Author: wonderful house

Explain what part of Blood Meridian made you cry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040086)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:52 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

is Ulysses a tough read?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040088)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:55 AM
Author: wonderful house

No. It's not always engaging, but it's not dense or anything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040102)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:57 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

thank

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040115)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:51 AM
Author: Garnet irradiated multi-billionaire school cafeteria

I remember reading "Bridge to Terabithia" for a middle school book review report thing and crying at the end when that chick died.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040079)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:54 AM
Author: beady-eyed snowy water buffalo dopamine

The American Restatement of Torts, Second

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040098)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:57 AM
Author: Scarlet stock car

Chambers Associate: The Student's Guide to Law Firms

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040116)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:02 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

restatements were a breath of fresh air compared to casebooks but i'm no one to judge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040142)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 12:56 AM
Author: Orange vibrant den trump supporter

the giving tree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040106)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:00 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

forgot about this one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040132)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:20 AM
Author: duck-like histrionic public bath

cr

poast above was just lazy flame, but I'd forgotten about this one. this was certainly the only one, maybe barring segments of the Chronicles of Narnia.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040218)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:13 AM
Author: wonderful house

vsg! answer me pls: http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040066

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040185)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:19 AM
Author: fighting diverse macaca

Flowers for Algernon

Of Mice & Men

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040211)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:13 PM
Author: 180 pit

did you cry bc Steinbeck is such a godawful writer and they make you read him anyway

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043069)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:22 PM
Author: fighting diverse macaca

It was 9th grade. I teared up because the guy shot Lenny.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043131)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:24 PM
Author: wonderful house

Steinbeck is 180. What makes you consider him bad?

Do you have any examples of good writers?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043148)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:29 PM
Author: 180 pit

yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043192)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:35 PM
Author: wonderful house

poast them fgt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043241)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:30 AM
Author: razzle chestnut ceo

"Faggots" by Larry Kramer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040260)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:32 AM
Author: duck-like histrionic public bath



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040269)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:32 AM
Author: cobalt impressive trailer park shitlib

The art of racing in the rain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040267)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:35 AM
Author: Indigo Hideous Volcanic Crater Main People

American Psycho and Journey to the End of the Night

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040285)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:36 AM
Author: duck-like histrionic public bath

synergistic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040291)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:41 AM
Author: Hairraiser honey-headed haunted graveyard

do you happen to remember the American Psycho chapter?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37040311)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:37 PM
Author: Indigo Hideous Volcanic Crater Main People

Don't recall the exact chapter, but it's toward the end when Patrick is on a date with Jean, and she tells him she loves him. His responding monologue always gets me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37042738)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:42 PM
Author: Sickened generalized bond feces

is that "we buy balloons, we let them go"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37042783)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:51 PM
Author: Indigo Hideous Volcanic Crater Main People

No, although I think that’s in the same chapter and part of the same scene. That’s also a good passage, but the one I have in mind comes before that one, I think.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37042860)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:43 PM
Author: submissive space clown

Imperium by Robert Harris

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37042787)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:52 PM
Author: passionate poppy coffee pot faggot firefighter

"You Are a Fag" by A. Pederast

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37042869)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:55 PM
Author: submissive space clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37042900)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:16 PM
Author: Exhilarant toaster fanboi



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043087)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:56 PM
Author: vigorous stag film

Closest were probably Atonement, Independence Day, Never Let Me Go, The Road

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37042908)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 1:56 PM
Author: Charismatic menage

Big hardcover of Magic Eye puzzles. Moms bf beat me with it when i taped over his recording of WCW Nitro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37042911)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:10 PM
Author: Electric Theater Cuckold

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043035)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:10 PM
Author: Sickened generalized bond feces

"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver always gets me, not quite to tears, but it's really moving

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043034)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:19 PM
Author: Charismatic menage

Is that the one with the blind person? He really was an incredible writer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043116)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:21 PM
Author: Sickened generalized bond feces

yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043127)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:22 PM
Author: Charismatic menage

180 brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043133)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:10 PM
Author: Out-of-control smoky piazza fat ankles

Shiloh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043038)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:19 PM
Author: Lavender gaming laptop

I read The Road shortly after having my son -- can't recall if I cried reading it, but I know it was an emotional read.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043111)



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Date: October 17th, 2018 2:34 PM
Author: comical jap

Culture of Critique

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108584&forum_id=2#37043232)