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The flagpole that had flown at half-mast the day Cecilia died, though it had been summer and no one but the lawn crew had noticed

— Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides (1993)

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The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of Bombyx mori, no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. The legs of the larve have degenerated, and the adults do not fly.

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The girls were right in choosing to love Trip, because he was the only boy who could keep his mouth shut.

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