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conversations.value: the first two paragraphs for a book with the title 'Turf'
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conversations.value: Turf
  We hope you will understand if your collection was not noted here. There is simply not the space here for a comprehensive list. Should you be interested, please see Dave in Membership.
  Regarding displays: It really depends on what you collect. Small things can be displayed on shelves. Shelves can be customized. Flat things can be displayed in files and drawers, but we require easy access and complete cataloguing. Larger collections may require larger wall space or larger homes, but there are all kinds of creative ways to display things and we love visiting each other's homes both to see collections and for inspiration. Bigger things require bigger places in which to display them, so if you have it in your mind to build a collection of something like farming machinery, vintage campers, or automobiles, we advise caution. That such collections are prohibitively costly does not seem to prohibit some of us, and that is but one pitfall of your large-item collecting.
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conversations.value: five more paragraphs
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conversations.value: We need couples therapy, I said, pulling up the bedcovers. The silence had gotten to me. I'm a talker.
  I guess is never the right answer when you're asking your husband if he's interested in saving your marriage. But I know Dan well enough to know that I guess here means yes, I want to save the marriage but I am really not looking forward to the effort involved.
  This was one of those moments where we both knew what the other was talking about even though we couldn't remember the specifics other than that we had thought it was hilarious at the time. We might have laughed if we hadn't just started speaking again.
  Can't we just try to work this out ourselves? I mean, you know this is about your mom, at the bottom of it, right?
  Queens. He might as well have said Alaska. It wasn't that far to go to save my marriage, and for crying out loud, there were still Jehovah's Witnesses who came to the door. And I knew they didn't live around here. Yes, I knew people still practiced religion, that wasn't so surprising, but you'd think there'd be a few less people willing to go out and witness. I've asked them where they came from. We always invited them in for whatever we might have to offer. None of those Witnesses have ever come from anywhere closer than Coney Island and some even from Jersey and beyond. The point is, those people had to do all the same things we did just to eat, and yet they still had this other thing that mattered to them enough to walk all those miles.
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: The point is, those people had to do all the same things we did just to eat, and yet they still had this other thing that mattered to them enough to walk all those miles.. None of those Witnesses have ever come from anywhere closer than Coney Island and some even from Jersey and beyond. We always invited them in for whatever we might have to offer. I've asked them where they came from. Yes, I knew people still practiced religion, that wasn't so surprising, but you'd think there'd be a few less people willing to go out and witness. And I knew they didn't live around here. It wasn't that far to go to save my marriage, and for crying out loud, there were still Jehovah's Witnesses who came to the door. He might as well have said Alaska.
  Can't we just try to work this out ourselves? I mean, you know this is about your mom, at the bottom of it, right?
  Queens. We might have laughed if we hadn't just started speaking again.
  This was one of those moments where we both knew what the other was talking about even though we couldn't remember the specifics other than that we had thought it was hilarious at the time. But I know Dan well enough to know that I guess here means yes, I want to save the marriage but I am really not looking forward to the effort involved.
  I guess is never the right answer when you're asking your husband if he's interested in saving your marriage. I'm a talker. The silence had gotten to me.We need couples therapy, I said, pulling up the bedcovers
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conversations.value: the last four paragraphs
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conversations.value: Grateful acknowledgment to following publications for including versions of the following stories: The Huffington Post ("Everywhere, Now"), Guernica ("The Genius Meetings," "Notes for a Dad Story"), The Coachella Review ("Star Babies"), Rookie ("Roosters"), Make ("Here Everything's Better"), Bat City Review ("Some Concerns," original title "Fear of a Terrible Wife"), Fifty-Two Stories anthology ("Looking," original title "I Like Looking at Pictures of Gwen Stefani"), Swink ("All the Wigs of the World"), Fairy Tale Review ("Mr. and Mrs. P Are Married"), DimeStories ("Best Friends Seriously Forever"), Chicago Quarterly Review ("Justin Bieber's Hair in a Box"), The Lifted Brow ("Notes for an Important American Story"), Who Can Save Us Now? anthology ("Heroes," original title "Nate Pinckney Alderson, Superhero"), The Collagist (""), Fields ("Video"), Hobart ("Wind"), Commentary ("We Collect Things")
  With so much gratitude to Nina Solomon for being my first reader (and personal cheerleader), always, and to Kirk Walsh, Duncan Murrell, Jamie Quatro, and Roy Kesey for their help in getting these stories where they needed to go. Your notes have been invaluable and you're just dear people.
  Alice Tasman, there aren't enough words to say how glad I am to know you, and thanks as well to everyone at JVNLA for their continued hard work on my behalf. Dan Smetanka, as a longtime fan of you the editor and you the person, I'm super thrilled that we've taken our relationship to the next level (wink emoji); Lucille has been necessary but merciful to this work, and I am grateful. To my UCR friend-leagues, I just adore all of you, and your handholding is not the least of what helps me carry on with this whole writing thing.
  I wrote early versions of some of these stories a good long while ago now, and as such, I beg forgiveness in advance if you read them and gave me notes and I forgot. Consider this me signing off on whatever you have to do in the way of subtweets.