Only Annie Proulx has a gift like this:
"At first glance Jack seemed fair enough, with his curly hair and quick laugh, but for a small man he carried some weight in the haunch and his smile disclosed buckteeth, not pronounced enough to let him eat popcorn out of the neck of a jug, but noticeable."
From the story that inspired Brokeback Mountain.
Somehow the teeth got lost in translation, seems Jake didn't feel a prosthetic set were really necessary.
Girl with titanium hip will rock. Girl with titanium hip will write. Girl with titanium hip will read. Girl with titanium hip will battle crazy-ass disease called Wegener's Granulomatosis. Now stuff that in your spelling bee!
Thursday, December 08, 2005
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