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... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

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Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

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It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as ou...more

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I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?"He shook his head hurriedly, that he'd always thought that."Fellas have all the f...more

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She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged, somewhere, to somebody. She had belonged to no on...more

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    "You ever been arrested before?"    "No sir. This is my first time."    "The first time this week, you mean."    "Oh, I been arrested in Michigan....more