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Hot kisses covered my face, dragging me from deep sleep to the rim of consciousness.

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I first heard of Antonina on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. Willa Cather, opening line of My Antonia (1918) #openinglines #firstsentences https://t.co/693d5AgmUV

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When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one. Larry McMurtry, opening words of Lonesome Dove (1985) #openinglines #firstsentences https://t.co/iTGfCVfPbc

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Tap-dancing child abuser. That's what the Sunday New York Times from March 8, 1993, had called Vivi. Rebecca Wells, opening words of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996) #openinglines #firstsentences https://t.co/7CfXndGiIR

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The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families. Jay McInerney, opening line of The Last of the Savages (1997) #openinglines #firstsentences https://t.co/pMAL6d535l

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Once upon a time there was a six-toed cousin. Mine. Hedda Hopper, opening line of From Under My Hat (1952) #openinglines #firstsentences https://t.co/eMqwrc2yKd

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For forty years my act consisted of one joke. And then she died. George Burns, opening words of Gracie: A Love Story (1988) #openinglines #firstsentences https://t.co/ubhUVpdC7r

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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three. Billie Holiday, opening words of Lady Sings the Blues (1956) #openinglines #firstsentences https://t.co/yLJNab4AP1

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