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• How Can The Father Determine That The Child is His?

  
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  Image via Wikipedia To begot a child is a sign of manliness and to become a father of a child is compliance to the divine commandment. But how can the father determine that the child is his? Absent of any physical or clinical proofs, there is no way that the father can determine his paternity to the child, except ...
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• Baby Ben Balloon Learns to Fly

  
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  It was a bright summer morning. Baby Ben Balloon and his Mummy and Daddy were in the garden. Baby Ben was playing near a rose bush when Daddy Balloon said to him. Don’t play there son, you might get pricked by a thorn and then you’d go Pop, and you’d have to wear a big patch for the rest of your life. Ben ...
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• Year Six Tests

  
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  Year six Tests By Sam Hilston               Year 6 was a year that everyone was going to enjoy. But one thing that everyone was dreading was the tests. Everyone knew that these tests were going to be the most important we had sat so far, as they would determine which school everyone went to for ...
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• Every Day I See My Dream

  
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  Everyday I See My Dream               I live in a small apartment with my brother David my mom my sister Jamie and my dad. I live in downtown Winnipeg, there are a lot of bad people around where we live my mom says. But I don’t really think so sometimes it’s scary to walk around. I get ...
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• The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

  
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• Death of a Writer

  
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  “This is the strangest thing”, I thought as my head teetered on my neck completely detached.  I was sitting at my computer typing when it happened and I wondered how much longer I could continue to type before my head would topple off and it was over.  I could hear the church bells ringing outside that meant it ...
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• How You Can Change Your Life for The Better

  
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    T   money   or food.Even if a family was filthy rich, I would never live there. Money isn’t happiness. Love and forgiveness are the only two things that could heal a broken heart. Just be thankful for what you have in life because a lot of people have far less than you, but they have a loving family to go ...
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• It’s a Small World

  
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  It’s a small world they say. Your daughter in Scotland is only a day away from your London flat, your son in Australia only two. With letters and phones and e-mails, you could be in daily contact. So why have you never seen your grandchildren’s smiles, heard their laughter? A small world, big argument, a huge ...
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• Helmut Trout

  
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  Helmut Trout (Salvelinus fontanels disambiguation phallus) Also known as (Cyclops Trout, One Eyed Trout or the Phallus Trout) 　 The Helmut Trout is believed The last known specimen captured in the wild The only known preserved specimen is on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D. C. The staff ...
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• Mistletoe Madness and the joys of serin

  
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  A veritable sack of goodies to catch up on as we finally arrive at Advent (well, it starts officially today, really). First off, Dreamspinner Press have the last couple of days of huge discounts on the Mistletoe Madness Christmas Anthology , so now is the time to buy if you were planning to. You can find out more ...
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• Goddess Before Me

  
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  Goddess Before Me (Dedicated to Shona M. Daily-Germino) Radiant stars on a dream filled landscape The visions of splendor bring euphoria My gaze turns to stone as I stand entranced Fixed staring at the goddess before me That goddess is you. -Poem by Dragon Blogger
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• Ralph’s Rainbow Adventure

  
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  Once there was a frog named Ralph, who wanted nothing more than to find the end of a rainbow. “Why do you seek such a journey?” his mother asked. “That is where dreams come true.” replied Ralph. So he gathered his things and set out on his adventure. While walking through a marshy pond, he seen a ...
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• The Road to a Better Life

  
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     T T There are no second chances in life. You can only change yourself if you want to change. Everyone has a purpose for living. You just have to find yours. There are a lot of things that you can do in life. Once you understand that, all you have to do is find that thing that you love to do most. One of ...
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• Epilogue of a Dying Silence

  
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  Will I get a girlfriend? Ah, I thought I’ll get over this stabbing question once I become a teenager. But not too surprisingly here I’m asking myself the same question over and over again which was usually followed by a long uninterrupted silence wrapped in disappointment. Seven years ago, I remember spending a ...
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• Smear Campaign

  
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  They took her name then made her strip and lie on the hard bed. A stranger’s hands were on her body, probing her most intimate place. Then cold steel was pushed slowly into her flesh. She bore the pain and humiliation, knowing it would end soon. Finally she was released with the words, “smear test results take ...
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• The Simple Art of Short Detective Stories

  
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  Raymond Chandlers The Simple Art of Murder is a collection of short stories that he submitted over the years to pulp magazines and is prefaced with an essay he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly about mystery and detective stories. Almost all of the stories are "private eye" tales that take place in the Los Angeles ...
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• Review: A TWIST IN THE TALE, Jeffrey Archer

  
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  Macmillan Digital Audio, read by Martin Jarvis, ISBN 978-0-230- 70043-7, 4 hrs 30 mins, on 4 CDs. A collection of 12 short stories first published in hardback in 1988. Macmillan Digital Audio edition published 2008. Publishers blurb: A man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. ...
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• “A Promise of Love” Page Ten

  
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    Carol didn’t sleep that night. All she could think about, was what Lucus had told her. She hadn’t know his father well. Only the things she had heard. How he was a loner, poor man was always sad. Carol had seen him from time to time in town, Mr. James didn’t speak to her, he would nod his head in greeting. ...
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• Tales From Newgate: Battleday

  
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  It was a beautiful July 4 and Newgate was all prepared to celebrate another Battleday as it had for over two centuries.  For one of the first times ever, bands from outside Newgate were invited to participate in the parade down Newgrun Avenue from where the Newgate Diner is located all the way to Lake Praven.  With ...
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• Jake and The Stubborn Pencil – a Story for Children

  
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   Jake’s teacher called him a walking encyclopedia. Jake knew everything there was to know about dragons and dinosaurs, volcanoes and venomous snakes, even constellations and computers. “Ask Jake!” his classmates chorused whenever anyone needed the answer to a question. But Jake had a problem. He could add ...
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