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### Task: Continue the story ### Input: I 've had a couple of minor scares recently involving health issues that have made me pause and think about things . The first came a few weeks ago when my wife had to have a mamogram , and the second came a few days ago when my neck developed a small , painful lump . Fortunately neither turned out to be serious , but the anxiety and fear generated by each made me wonder how people who have terminal conditions maintain their sanity when told there is no hope . My father was anxious and probably fearful when he was given the news , but in the days and weeks before his death he prepared himself and faced it calmly . I don 't think I could do that . Although I 've always thought that death was an option when things got too bad , being told that it was coming - without any control of the event ### Output: on my part - is something that would invoke the white - hot terror that sometimes washes over me in the middle of a panic attack . There must be a shock mechanism which kicks in toward the end to keep our minds from dwelling on the finality of the situation or , as in the case of my father , a great faith that we will be taken care of as we journey on toward the next life . Even as I sit here writing this the anxiety builds in me , wondering whether or not I will have enough faith when that time comes , knowing that questioning my faith means not having enough . I was talking to a co - worker yesterday whose brother and his wife both have cancer . She said that his wife was sent home from the hospital because there was nothing more they could do , and that she was only given a few days mo
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Alfred was an English man . He moved to the states when he was young with his mother , father and sister . His dad had taken a better paying job , one that had the potential to create a better life for him and his family . Whenever Alfred spoke with me about it , he seemed to not have an opinion one way or another . Moving on was a natural part of life . We shared that history , since I myself am part British . And even though neither of us was Irish , we tended to enjoy our times together at a local Irish pub in San Jose in San Pedro Square . Perhaps it was the European connection . When you have rare opportunities to connect , you tend to grasp for the simple strands no matter how unfounded they are or what stretch of the imagination is required . And St Patrick 's day was the perfect co ### Output: ver for Alfred 's drinking problems . He was the kind of alcoholic that was allowed by society . No one ever mentioned it or talked about it . He never passed out anywhere but his home . It was the self managed and self contained alcoholic . I mean as long as you don 't hurt anyone and you continue to pull your weight , why say anything ? As long as no one mentions the problem , it must not be a problem , right ? That was Alfred . The socially acceptable alcoholic . Close to my 30th birthday , Alfred 's father passed away from a heart attack . Alfred was really close to his father and I remember several of our conversations after his father 's passing . He started to question God 's intentions . He wondered why God would leave his mother to fend for herself . Alfred felt it was too sudden
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The ship swayed and creaked . He feels every bit of it in his body . Taking no chances the crew , damnedable pirates , have chained him with no give . Legs bound in a kneeling position , arms chained to either wall crucifying him to the ship like a perverse figurehead , he 's been their captive long enough to have forgotten the feel of kindness . It is a small blessing that their fear of him keeps his gag in place at all times . It keeps them from coming anywhere near him . The captain learned a long time ago that he gleans all he needs to live from the moisture in the air , the brine in his eyes . During storms , when he is strongest , the captain posts guards with him . They don 't look at him . A terrible hope fills him today . By the movement of the ship and the crew 's curses , he kno ### Output: ws that they 're being pursued by another ship . This ship is a runner , fast . There 'd be little concern of capture if the ship did not gain its quickness from being light , gain its lightness from having little room for armaments or supplies . The pursuers have had them going for a week now and they 'd been out of port for at least a month . He knows from the panic in the crew that the food is all but gone . Soon they 'll be too weak to load what small guns are aboard . He 'd be surprised if they could remember how to sight the cannons it 's been so long since the captain has ordered them used . His hope stems from the pirates ' desperation . If they succumb to practicality then they 'll come for him . With frightened hearts and shaking hands , they 'll undo his chains and he 'll get to
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Image credit : Hyena Reality / Shutterstock . com This hospital has a ghost . Sadly the children here , being the most open , the most psychically acute , tend to see it the most . But on the other hand , they are young , and usually recover from both their bodily ills and the spiritual scarring of seeing the deathly ghost mask hovering above them . For the most part , though it makes them cry , and tell each other stories in its wake , it passes them by , on its grim procession to the elderly , the weak , the dying . Nurses on late night shifts sometimes speak of seeing it , a floating skull , hovering from room to room as though seeking eternal company . These revelations are whispered things , for to speak more openly would be to risk losing their jobs . But to not speak of it , convers ### Output: ely , would be to hold the secret alone and wonder at one 's sanity . If they must be mad , let … The cobalt dress was taut around Carter Graham 's hips , the nylon thigh - hose stretched smooth and the blonde wig that he made out of Janet 's scalp fit radiantly snug over his short , salt - and - pepper hair . The pumps were far too small so he had to slit the sides of the black leather to make his feet slip into the shoes . Sitting at the dressing table , Carter fumbled about in Janet 's jewelry box , primping and fussing , trying on different pieces to achieve that distinctive look . The make - up strategy was harsh and gaudy , the scarlet lipstick a bit too thick and became smeared from his unskilled attempts to apply it . An synthetic pearl necklace was selected and Carter clasped it a
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Something I wrote months and months ago that I never posted . . . Thought I might as well post it since I wrote it . This was me blowing off steam . Sweet cheeks , you present yourself as someone who is " deep " and cares about everyone and is super nice but I 've listened to you speak . You are kind to peoples face and behind their back all you do is talk down about them or talk about how much they annoy you . You are two faced . You are one person when you are looking and another when they look away . Stop acting like you do no wrong , because you do . You say that it hurts you when people tell you they are upset with you , well guess what Honny , at least they are telling you to your face . Hey , guess what , I 'm fucking mad at you . Goldy Locks , You try and tell people what is best f ### Output: or them , you act like you know everything . You don 't . You try to make everyone think that you are the top gun , but here 's the thing , you have no god damn spine . You are a weak person and you need help . You won 't admit that you need help and you don 't allow anyone to even try . You can 't let go . You let people walk all over you . You cling to your ex and you let it destroy you . You hang out with her even though it kills you . You cause more drama then you help . You show up to parties where she is with her new squeeze and you get wasted and cry and ruin your night , and everyone else 's . Move on already . She doesn 't love you , and she never did , not like that anyways . She only liked you as a really good friend , she just thought it was more . She cheated on you , and yet
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: We adopted this sweet little kitten from a local cat rescue . He arrived last month and Austin and Kaleigh are completely in love with him ! The lady from the rescue named him Tonka and we thought it suited him , so here is our adorable kitten , Tonka ! Posted by Two weeks ago , I got an email from the special needs technician at Austin 's school . When something occurs , the phone call or email always starts off with " Austin is okay but . . . " . This one was about a scare Austin had at the hands of another student . If you have read this blog previously , you will know that Austin is TERRIFIED of spiders ! The school has it documented in his IEP , that 's how serious it is , no joke ! One of the girl 's in his class had a book of spiders and was tormenting Austin with it . He got so ups ### Output: et , he ran to an empty locker and tried to hide inside of it . The girl continued to torment Austin outside the locker . A bunch of other children rallied around the outside of the locker and tried to keep the girl from getting near Austin who was hysterically crying at this point ! One of the boy 's ran to get help and a woman from the office came out to resolve the situation . Austin was taken by Ms . D ( the lady who works in the office ) to the special needs technician ( Ms . L ) to calm him down . The girl was dealt with , she was removed from school for the remainder of the day , well deserved I thought . I couldn 't believe this story and was very upset ! When Austin gets this upset , I have to go into school and get him to settle him down . This time , thanks to the fantastic supp
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Rodents have never been my favorite creatures . Luckily I 've never had to deal with them many times . I 've caught them in inhumane traps that broke their nasty little necks , I 've used the sticky traps , and poisoned them with Decon . Once I had a bad experience with hamsters . A couple of months before we moved to Colorado Springs from Texas , our kids were given a couple of hamsters as pets . There was a male and a female , and both were well up in hamster years . The kids loved them . It might have been the change in altitude , or maybe it was just their time to go , but both passed on during the move . The kids were devistated . After settling in we took the kids to Pet City to pick out a new pair of rodents . We asked for either two males or two females . We wanted a combination th ### Output: at wouldn 't reproduce . " No problem , " said the salesman . He went through the fake motions of checking a few of them , boxed up a couple , and we were on our way . The kids were happy , and in a few weeks when a litter of babies arrived they were thrilled to have more pets . The cage filled up rapidly , and finally Teresa made a high rise apartment complex out of hardware cloth to house the ever increasing herd . By the time summer rolled around they were begining to eat one another in spite of being fed regularly . Something had to be done . Thankfully Teresa and the kids went to Texas for a few weeks , leaving me alone with the little cannibals . I purchased the largest box of Decon available and put a large pile in each cube before going to work . When I got home I rushed to the gar
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Cats in the attic and other cat tails Please pardon the dual pun title . This blog post is all about the cats in my family . Currently , I have two , my brother has four , my parents have two , as do both my sisters . My wife , who loves cats is allergic , but thanks to Benadryl , she manages . When I was a kid , I fondly remember Gypsy , a little tabby someone gave my parents . Back then , there was no such thing as spaying or neutering your cats . You simply had a cat and she had lots of kittens . Gypsy must have been quite popular with the male kitties in our community . She managed four litters each summer . We were fortunate to know lots of people , because we gave away a lot of cats . At one time , we had fifteen kittens at once . My sister Tammy used to carry the kittens around in b ### Output: eef buckets . Everywhere you looked , there was a kitten popping out of something , and it was quite hilarious at times . We had so many cats , Dad had to do something . One day Gypsy ' ran away ' ; at least , that 's what we were told . The reality was , my parents could no longer afford to keep all those kittens , and were quickly running out of people to give them to . I bet my dad still feels guilty , but ( as he told us when were older ) one day he took Gypsy for a car ride to the local dump . " Lots of mice and rats for her to eat here " he told mom , as they drove home . When I got older , and my first marriage was over , I found my home very quiet . I decided to adopt two kittens . A friend of my parents had a litter of kittens at their home , and this is where I found ' Rascal ' .
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: I was up a little after 05 : 00 this morning and by 05 : 30 I was on line and working . I made sure to wake Linda at 06 : 00 , or very close to that time , so she could get the girls up and moving . I needed to work on a couple of things , so I wasn 't of much assistance to her , though I did wake up the girls . The girls were particularly excited today , because they were going to get to see their mother , after school . This is good because we 've had them for just over four weeks now , and kids need their mothers . Linda got the girls over to the school and then took on the tasks of working on the house and helping Jason get ready for his appointment . Me , I was pounding on the keyboard and doing my best to get some information together and ready for presentation . Jason had his appoin ### Output: tment with Wound Care , at Balboa hospital , and I 'm glad because I needed him to pick up some specific supplies . Because Jason is using a wound - vac he needs some different items that we normally don 't have , and before he went to the appointment we were completely out . Needless to say I was a little anxious to see the resupply , and then I could relax a little . The report back from the folks at Wound Care was positive , in that the wound is looking better and the left side is now closed . I just hope it remains closed this time . I could tell Jason was happy to hear that the left side was closed , as he was thinking that they might never close . Shortly after Jason got home we received a call from the school , that the girls had not been picked up by their mother . This put us in t
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: I was up a little after 05 : 00 this morning and by 05 : 30 I was on line and working . I made sure to wake Linda at 06 : 00 , or very close to that time , so she could get the girls up and moving . I needed to work on a couple of things , so I wasn 't of much assistance to her , though I did wake up the girls . The girls were particularly excited today , because they were going to get to see their mother , after school . This is good because we 've had them for just over four weeks now , and kids need their mothers . Linda got the girls over to the school and then took on the tasks of working on the house and helping Jason get ready for his appointment . Me , I was pounding on the keyboard and doing my best to get some information together and ready for presentation . Jason had his appoin ### Output: tment with Wound Care , at Balboa hospital , and I 'm glad because I needed him to pick up some specific supplies . Because Jason is using a wound - vac he needs some different items that we normally don 't have , and before he went to the appointment we were completely out . Needless to say I was a little anxious to see the resupply , and then I could relax a little . The report back from the folks at Wound Care was positive , in that the wound is looking better and the left side is now closed . I just hope it remains closed this time . I could tell Jason was happy to hear that the left side was closed , as he was thinking that they might never close . Shortly after Jason got home we received a call from the school , that the girls had not been picked up by their mother . This put us in t
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The weather was perfect for Gina 's seventeenth birthday , and the day was a welcome break from the hectic pace at the end of the school year . More than that , it was the first time any of our friends from school were attending a nudist social event . Heather , of course , had known our families ' secret for some time . Gina had recently told Shannon so Scott also knew . They were the only three of our classmates who knew , however . Scott and Shannon were getting a little more comfortable , having made two joint trips to the bathroom to " take care of things . " We were sitting on the side of the pool with our feet dangling in the water , our bellies happily full of grilled steak and chicken . I was between Gina and Heather , enjoying the touch of their bare skin against my arms . Erin a ### Output: nd Leah were sitting near us , eager to listen in on our conversation . I guess , now that we were about to be seniors , it was exciting for them to feel like part of our group . We talked about what we were going to do over the summer , and our upcoming senior year . Gina and I were going to Susan 's camp with our families for the summer . " When we started wrestling practice in the fall , you didn 't have tan lines . Everybody had them after swimming and things all summer long . All except you . " " Yeah , it does , " Shannon said . " It 's still a little strange , sitting here with all of you , like this , but it is nice . " She scooted a little closer to Scott , their thighs touching . I had to stifle a laugh at Scott 's look of concentration . I knew exactly what he was doing ; trying
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: floor to ceiling windows . One whole wall of the library was windows . She liked sitting in here in the mornings . It was peaceful and helped her collect her thoughts . She looked down at Sharon asleep , with her head on Sarah 's lap . She gently touched her cousin 's hair . Red hair . That was so different . Sharon had always been a blonde . She said she never planned to dye her hair because she wanted to prove that blondes could be smart too . Sarah smiled at the memory . Last night , after she had gotten Sharon inside it had taken a while to calm her down . Then when she had mentioned getting her checked out by a doctor , Sharon burst back in to tears and had begged her not to call anyone . She was afraid . It had taken her hours to get her to stop crying and fall asleep . Even now Shar ### Output: on could feel Sarah 's body twitching as she dreamed . What was she dreaming about ? Sarah gently stroked her cousin 's hair , remembering that was how her aunt use to calm Sharon down when she was little . She had also sung her a lullaby but Sarah couldn 't remember how it went . Just then Sharon 's whole body jerked and to stroke her hair , wondering what she was dreaming about . She had a feeling Sharon had enough experiences over the past five years to give her nightmares for the rest of her life . But the few questions Sarah had tried to ask last night had only made Sharon cry harder so she had stopped . She desperately wanted Sharon to talk to Emily but was afraid to push . She felt Sharon 's head move and she looked down to see her looking up at her . She smiled down at her . back t
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Far out among the hillocks and lumps of a misty moor , there stood a house with three chimneys and four windows and six children who lived there all alone . They were very comfortable . Their house was snug and smelled of violets and clary sage , and its insides were well - stuffed with cushions and coal - stoves and crackly , yellow - paged books . Outside was a hawthorn tree and a wash - barrel and a small square of grass , and all of it was enclosed by a high stone wall , its door kept firmly locked from the outside . Now and then a woman would emerge from the fog that lay forever around the house , and would bring the children pails of fresh milk and trays of meat pies covered with linen handkerchiefs , but she almost never spoke to the children . When she did , she called them " My li ### Output: ttle lords and ladies " in a sad sort of voice . She would come very early in the morning , before the sun had risen , and would ring a brass bell to let the children know she had placed the pails and trays inside the door into the garden . Then she would go away again in a great hurry . And then there was Cripps , who was very tiny and quiet , and wandered about smelling the bristly purple flowers in the garden and poking his nose into cupboards and the tops of shelves where only spiders lived , and into the chimneys , where nothing lived , but which were very intriguing . Cripps wondered often what they were all doing in that house on the moor and why the door was always kept locked , and why the woman always went away in a hurry . He had a great deal of thoughts , but he kept them to hi
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Far out among the hillocks and lumps of a misty moor , there stood a house with three chimneys and four windows and six children who lived there all alone . They were very comfortable . Their house was snug and smelled of violets and clary sage , and its insides were well - stuffed with cushions and coal - stoves and crackly , yellow - paged books . Outside was a hawthorn tree and a wash - barrel and a small square of grass , and all of it was enclosed by a high stone wall , its door kept firmly locked from the outside . Now and then a woman would emerge from the fog that lay forever around the house , and would bring the children pails of fresh milk and trays of meat pies covered with linen handkerchiefs , but she almost never spoke to the children . When she did , she called them " My li ### Output: ttle lords and ladies " in a sad sort of voice . She would come very early in the morning , before the sun had risen , and would ring a brass bell to let the children know she had placed the pails and trays inside the door into the garden . Then she would go away again in a great hurry . And then there was Cripps , who was very tiny and quiet , and wandered about smelling the bristly purple flowers in the garden and poking his nose into cupboards and the tops of shelves where only spiders lived , and into the chimneys , where nothing lived , but which were very intriguing . Cripps wondered often what they were all doing in that house on the moor and why the door was always kept locked , and why the woman always went away in a hurry . He had a great deal of thoughts , but he kept them to hi
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: " Sorry about my outburst last night . I was getting really irritated with the situation . I was also really embarrassed that we brought [ my boyfriend ] into the rpg * and it developed so fast . I couldn 't believe he was acting that way and it reminded me so much of [ The Rat King of the Underworld ] would get argumentative over stupid semantics . I shouldn 't have let it myself get so bothered by it but it really did . I felt cowed and cornered . " " I 'm sorry about last night too . I didn 't mean to provoke you . To be honest , I was enjoying hashing out the semantics of what happened . I understand that it was a trigger for you , and been more empathetic . Y ' know how I always say he is terrible at reading situations ? This was DEFINITELY one of those times ! Like , my [ husband ] t ### Output: ried to lead him , and Andy Parenthesis and I tried too , and he was completely ignoring all the signs ! ! ! ! " We had a game night tonight . My husband ran a story for my friend Andy Parenthesis , MadEyeWe and I . We were role playing , and this was the first night MadEye brought her boyfriend . He created his character , and in the first minute of the game decides he 's going to kick in the door to the room that we 're all standing in . Due to some previous encounters in the game ( that he wasn 't around for ) , our characters drew guns . We were trying to talk to the guy but he wouldn 't answer us . ( As the players , it was really annoying because realistically he created his character to be part of our group and it felt like he wasn 't making any effort . ) He , as his character deci
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: " Sorry about my outburst last night . I was getting really irritated with the situation . I was also really embarrassed that we brought [ my boyfriend ] into the rpg * and it developed so fast . I couldn 't believe he was acting that way and it reminded me so much of [ The Rat King of the Underworld ] would get argumentative over stupid semantics . I shouldn 't have let it myself get so bothered by it but it really did . I felt cowed and cornered . " " I 'm sorry about last night too . I didn 't mean to provoke you . To be honest , I was enjoying hashing out the semantics of what happened . I understand that it was a trigger for you , and been more empathetic . Y ' know how I always say he is terrible at reading situations ? This was DEFINITELY one of those times ! Like , my [ husband ] t ### Output: ried to lead him , and Andy Parenthesis and I tried too , and he was completely ignoring all the signs ! ! ! ! " We had a game night tonight . My husband ran a story for my friend Andy Parenthesis , MadEyeWe and I . We were role playing , and this was the first night MadEye brought her boyfriend . He created his character , and in the first minute of the game decides he 's going to kick in the door to the room that we 're all standing in . Due to some previous encounters in the game ( that he wasn 't around for ) , our characters drew guns . We were trying to talk to the guy but he wouldn 't answer us . ( As the players , it was really annoying because realistically he created his character to be part of our group and it felt like he wasn 't making any effort . ) He , as his character deci
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: When I got downstairs the next day to have breakfast I saw General Coleman and my heart missed a beat . " Hello Sunshine , I hear you are excellent in the assignment I gave you . I 'm happy . I got something for you . " He said . He pointed to a box and Abena opened it . A little poodle popped its head out of the box . It was adorable . I had always wanted one but the apartment I used to live in did not allow pets . I knelt down and the adorable dog run into my arms . " Thank you . " I said and General Coleman smiled . " You need to take her on walks . She may need one tonight as she 's been in this box for so long . Let 's take today off . " I nodded and Arial to my room . That was her new name . I put on my usual gym clothes but this time just to take Arial for a walk . Alison and I were ### Output: on calling terms now . I called her and told her I couldn 't make it to the gym because I didn 't have anyone around to walk my dog . I thought it was a silly excuse but she totally bought it . Arial seemed much more excited than I was . " Calm down . " I said as we run down the stairs . When we got outside I looked around and off we went . As the little thing trotted excitedly beside me I felt happy . Like how I felt when I was with Edem . I wanted to call him but just didn 't know what to say . He always saw right through my lies . We were about to cross the road when I heard my name . I turned around and there he was ! Coleman , standing next to his car . As he walked to me I could feel the fury in him . " Where have you been ? ! I 've been calling and texting you forever . What did I
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: A song played constantly in my head that summer , Lee Ann Womack 's , I Hope You Dance . Every time I heard it or sang along with it . I was reminded that my life was going to be what I made of it . I didn 't want to get down the road and look back and wish for something else . Who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone ? When I hear that song now , it takes me to driving back and forth out on my own . I had been shy and awkward about life ; I wasn 't going to be that way anymore . I was like a snowball pushed down a hill , growing in experience and force . Once I got started making choices for myself , I felt empowered . It was thrilling to be able to reinvent me . Being alone was okay but I didn 't want this for my future . I liked sharing my life with s ### Output: omeone . Nothing was going to bring Rick back but the future was mine . A friend told me , " If it 's to be , it 's up to me . " I tried to live that statement . . I was ready to greet life . Things that seemed like challenges before just seemed small in comparison to what I had been through . I sailed alone frequently during the end of that summer . I loved it . The power of the wind on blustery days was invigorating . I loved when the boat heeled and cut through the water . I leaned back and held the mainsheet ( line or rope ) and tiller , my body leaning against the opposite side to counterbalance the tilt of the boat . Even alone , I wasn 't afraid . I was a new Jane . Toward the end of the summer , I decided to take Mike and Jack out together for a sail . We got up early , packed lunc
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Jack put an arm out and moved Clarice away from her father . He had a number of reasons he didn 't want to be too close to Damien , but the obvious one was he was afraid of him . " We just want you to stop sending your daughters back in time . That 's all ! Why can 't you do that ? " Jack pleaded . " You can be poor if you want . I don 't want to be . " " Then why don 't you go back yourself ? " Jack asked . " Why do you send your daughters back ? If it 's so important for you to be rich , then you go back and get sick ! " " I 'll send them back whenever I feel like it . And I 'll send them back again as soon as I get rid of you , " Damien said , walking toward Jack . " I 'm done talking with you . " Jack nodded . " I 'm done talking to you , too . " Jack stared past Damien 's shoulder and ### Output: shook his head sadly . Damien spun around , thinking Clarice was sneaking up on him . Jeb Guthrie stood directly behind Damien . He tossed the second Doorway on top of the first one . " Time to go , big guy , " Jeb said . He flashed Jack a sad smile with his bright , white teeth , then griped Damien in a bear hug . And just like that , they were gone . Clarice stared at Jack from behind the Christmas tree , her eyes wet and shining in the glow from the Christmas lights . " Where did they go ? " Jack opened up the 25th and last door on the Doorway . He pulled out a folded piece of paper . He unfolded it and flattened it out , revealing a brightly colored illustration of a fantastical alien world . " Utopia , " Jack said . * * * * * Clarice had been in state of shock . Or maybe she was just
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Jack put an arm out and moved Clarice away from her father . He had a number of reasons he didn 't want to be too close to Damien , but the obvious one was he was afraid of him . " We just want you to stop sending your daughters back in time . That 's all ! Why can 't you do that ? " Jack pleaded . " You can be poor if you want . I don 't want to be . " " Then why don 't you go back yourself ? " Jack asked . " Why do you send your daughters back ? If it 's so important for you to be rich , then you go back and get sick ! " " I 'll send them back whenever I feel like it . And I 'll send them back again as soon as I get rid of you , " Damien said , walking toward Jack . " I 'm done talking with you . " Jack nodded . " I 'm done talking to you , too . " Jack stared past Damien 's shoulder and ### Output: shook his head sadly . Damien spun around , thinking Clarice was sneaking up on him . Jeb Guthrie stood directly behind Damien . He tossed the second Doorway on top of the first one . " Time to go , big guy , " Jeb said . He flashed Jack a sad smile with his bright , white teeth , then griped Damien in a bear hug . And just like that , they were gone . Clarice stared at Jack from behind the Christmas tree , her eyes wet and shining in the glow from the Christmas lights . " Where did they go ? " Jack opened up the 25th and last door on the Doorway . He pulled out a folded piece of paper . He unfolded it and flattened it out , revealing a brightly colored illustration of a fantastical alien world . " Utopia , " Jack said . * * * * * Clarice had been in state of shock . Or maybe she was just
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Shane stared at the door . He wasn 't sure how long he 'd been staring at it , but he thought it was a long time . Days , maybe . Years . He had no idea . Nothing changed in this place except the place itself . He 'd walk through a door , and almost immediately something would try to kill him . Sometimes he would evade it through sheer luck or skill . Sometimes he would get past the murderous devices by just … knowing they were there . But how did he know ? He glanced back at the corpses of the three cyborg wolves that he had killed after he came in the room . The moment he came through the door , he had started shooting , and every shot hit . When the lead wolf changed direction and charged at him , it was like he knew where the wolf was going . Within ten seconds , the wolves were dead , ### Output: blood oozing out and electronics sparking , and he 'd cleared another room . Like he 'd done it all before , and this was just rote for him by now . The wolves were giant things , horrible hybrids of flesh and metal , but he had dispatched them with the ease of hundreds of hours of practice . This whole base seemed designed to kill him , yet he had so far been unkillable . He had evaded every death trap , known every doorcode by heart , been perfectly aware of where he should step and where he shouldn 't . He thought for a little while that he 'd been knocked out when he applied for the job , maybe had some kind of microchip put into his brain . But that seemed a little too far - fetched . He stared at the door . It was old and decrepit . The varnish had started peeling away ages ago , le
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Just then he thought he heard some little voices cry , " Jack ! Jack ! " His baby sister was asleep , and the nurse was reading a story - book , so it could not have been either of them who called . " I must get in here , " said the boy . " I wish this hole was larger . " So he began to wriggle and twist himself through , and just as he pulled in his last foot , he looked up , and three heads which had been peeping over the edge of the nest suddenly popped down again . His eyes were not used yet to the dim light ; but he was sure those things were not birds , - no . He poked them , and they took no notice ; but when he snatched one of them out of the nest , it gave a loud squeak , and said , " Oh , don 't , Jack ! " as plainly as possible , upon which he was so frightened that he lost his ### Output: footing , dropped the thing , and slipped down himself . Luckily , he was not hurt , nor the thing either ; he could see it quite plainly now : it was creeping about like rather an old baby , and had on a little frock and pinafore . " It 's a fairy ! " exclaimed Jack to himself . " How curious ! and this must be a fairy 's nest . Oh , how angry the old mother will be if this little thing creeps away and gets out of the hole ! " So he looked down . " Oh , the hole is on the other side , " he said ; and he turned round , but the hole was not on the other side ; it was not on any side ; it must have closed up all of a sudden , while he was looking into the nest , for , look whichever way he would , there was no hole at all , excepting a very little one high up over the nest , which let in a v
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: " As a house painter , he 's the next best thing to Michaelangelo " Frank persuaded me . " You know , the Sistine Chapel and all that . " By the way he was searching my eyes for doubt and the slight hesitation he had before he started his sentence with bravado , I knew there should be doubt , and there were questions that begged for answers , and for stories to tell . He barreled on , " He 's had drug and alcohol problems but he 's fine now . He works for us , paints the hotel rooms at this hotel , paints the other hotel rooms and sometimes he goes out and does people 's houses . He 's really good . " I sat , alert , watching all sides of my vehicle , through the rear view mirror , the side mirrors and then , craning my neck from side to side . The parking lot of the East Side hotel was no ### Output: place for a middle class bourgeois lady to be hanging out , waiting . The wait seemed forever as I observed a tottering , thin young woman , deeply bronzed by the outdoor sun , stagger across the lot about a hundred feet away by the sidewalk on Abbott Street . She was carrying a big parcel tied with string that caused her to limp . Or maybe it was the five inch heels that seemed to operate separate from the body that was wearing them . Up against the chain link fence by the stairwell to the parking , a huddled mass of rags moved beside a sleeping bag and a homeless man emerged then sunk back into his stupor . What on earth was I doing here ! Why did I let myself get persuaded into these things ! I had gotten distracted in my concentration on the perilous high heels and nearly jumped out o
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Jack put an arm out and moved Clarice away from her father . He had a number of reasons he didn 't want to be too close to Damien , but the obvious one was he was afraid of him . " We just want you to stop sending your daughters back in time . That 's all ! Why can 't you do that ? " Jack pleaded . " You can be poor if you want . I don 't want to be . " " Then why don 't you go back yourself ? " Jack asked . " Why do you send your daughters back ? If it 's so important for you to be rich , then you go back and get sick ! " " I 'll send them back whenever I feel like it . And I 'll send them back again as soon as I get rid of you , " Damien said , walking toward Jack . " I 'm done talking with you . " Jack nodded . " I 'm done talking to you , too . " Jack stared past Damien 's shoulder and ### Output: shook his head sadly . Damien spun around , thinking Clarice was sneaking up on him . Jeb Guthrie stood directly behind Damien . He tossed the second Doorway on top of the first one . " Time to go , big guy , " Jeb said . He flashed Jack a sad smile with his bright , white teeth , then griped Damien in a bear hug . And just like that , they were gone . Clarice stared at Jack from behind the Christmas tree , her eyes wet and shining in the glow from the Christmas lights . " Where did they go ? " Jack opened up the 25th and last door on the Doorway . He pulled out a folded piece of paper . He unfolded it and flattened it out , revealing a brightly colored illustration of a fantastical alien world . " Utopia , " Jack said . * * * * * Clarice had been in state of shock . Or maybe she was just
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Posted by Jill Ginsberg under Giving \| Tags : angels , connection , courage , family , Giving , mother \| [ 22 ] Comments I love Christmas , I really do . I love that all the stores are closed and there isn 't anywhere to go . I love that the phone probably won 't ring . In the unlikely event the doorbell chimes , it will be a crafty friend with cookies or other homemade goodies . I understand the deep significance of the holiday for those who celebrate it and mean no disrespect . As a Jew , Christmas for me means a nice day off and sometimes Chinese food and a movie . We never celebrated Christmas when I was a child and I have never hung an ornament . I think the lights are pretty but I would probably be one of those people that left them up all year round out of sheer laziness . There 's ### Output: a book I 've had my eye on at Powell 's : Rambam 's Ladder , A Meditation on Generosity and Why it is Necessary to Give , by Julie Salamon . A few months into this adventure , I still have a lot to learn about generosity and giving . I forgot that I would not be the only person happy to get out of the house today . The streets downtown were teeming , and people had that wistful post - holiday daze about them . As I approached Powell 's , I saw a young woman crouched over on the traffic island across the street . I couldn 't really make it out , but it looked like she had some paper or a drawing pad on her lap . People were streaming by in all directions . No one looked at her and she didn 't look up . I decided to try my luck at finding a parking place and then see if she was still there .
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: I told my mom the next morning that I had to go home . She was perfectly fine with whatever I wanted to do . At any other time in my life I probably could have stayed and savored the water , the views , the solitude but I felt somewhat in limbo , not knowing where I stood in my life . I am a " have at it " kind of gal . If there 's a job to be done , I prefer to face it head on and get it over with . The boys were okay with going home too . We packed up our things and left after lunch . I wrote a thank you to Mary and Bill in the guest book they kept in the house . It was a beautiful place to be ; as I close my eyes and look back I see the yellows of my room , the blueness of the skies and water and dazzling night sky filled with stars . The worries whirling around in my head could not be ### Output: calmed by them . I needed to get my house in order . The drive back home always seems shorter to me , no matter where I travel . It only took about an hour and a half . We missed rush hour and the boys were in the backyard playing in no time . One of the first things I did was to drive to the medical facility and bring back all the boxes and boxes of medical supplies we had been provided . There were so many things left unopened . I called my sister in - law , Christine and asked her about all of the drugs that I had for Rick . My cupboards were full . She said she would drop by later with Danny and take a look . When she arrived and looked , she was astounded at the vast amount of items in " the pharmacy . " As a pharmacist , she had seen so many sick people or spouses of patients who arr
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: " Fine , " said the cat . " I will . " With a flick of his tail and a gravity - defying leap , the cat perched himself upon the mantle . " We have been living in this house for three weeks now . Three long , boring weeks . Other than to pick up food and bring it back here , how many times have you left ? I have been hinting and hinting that you need to go outside and do something since day two . It 's not because anyone cares if you show up for a party . It 's not because anyone cares if you go out and hit on chicks . It 's not because anyone cares if you bathe or brush your teeth . " Because despite what you tell yourself day in and day out , you 're miserable . You can 't stand the idea that other people 's lives are moving on while yours is not . Do you know why your life isn 't moving ### Output: on ? Because you aren 't pushing it ! " Lives are stubborn things , " the cat continued . " They tend to persist in whatever gear you set them in . Overly busy people find it difficult to slow down . Their lives just blow past them out of control leaving them wishing they had brakes to slow them down . " " And you have done a masterful job of not moving too fast in life . " The cat dropped from the mantle and in one swift motion , settled on the arm of the man 's chair . " Your problem is the exact opposite . " The cat paused to lick his paw for a long moment , seemingly waiting for his point to sink in . After getting no response from the man , he continued . " Have you ever seen a car that hasn 't been used in years ? It rusts . Things quit working . Getting it up and running again is a
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: " Fine , " said the cat . " I will . " With a flick of his tail and a gravity - defying leap , the cat perched himself upon the mantle . " We have been living in this house for three weeks now . Three long , boring weeks . Other than to pick up food and bring it back here , how many times have you left ? I have been hinting and hinting that you need to go outside and do something since day two . It 's not because anyone cares if you show up for a party . It 's not because anyone cares if you go out and hit on chicks . It 's not because anyone cares if you bathe or brush your teeth . " Because despite what you tell yourself day in and day out , you 're miserable . You can 't stand the idea that other people 's lives are moving on while yours is not . Do you know why your life isn 't moving ### Output: on ? Because you aren 't pushing it ! " Lives are stubborn things , " the cat continued . " They tend to persist in whatever gear you set them in . Overly busy people find it difficult to slow down . Their lives just blow past them out of control leaving them wishing they had brakes to slow them down . " " And you have done a masterful job of not moving too fast in life . " The cat dropped from the mantle and in one swift motion , settled on the arm of the man 's chair . " Your problem is the exact opposite . " The cat paused to lick his paw for a long moment , seemingly waiting for his point to sink in . After getting no response from the man , he continued . " Have you ever seen a car that hasn 't been used in years ? It rusts . Things quit working . Getting it up and running again is a
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Posted on July 15 , 2012 by sonnypi67 I had an interesting experience this weekend at the Barnes and Noble bookstore , and it wasn 't the date I had via eHarmony . That was a dud . The woman wasn 't . She was nice and smart and funny and accomplished but we didn 't click , not even a little . I hate when that happens but more often than not it does . No . That was Saturday . I 'm talking about today , Sunday , in a different Barnes and Noble bookstore ( sigh - I miss Borders … anyhoo … . ) , the one closer to my house . I went there because , while waiting for my date at the other B & , I started reading this book entitled Ready Player One , by Ernest Cline , which is very cool but that is not what this post is about . It is only the catalyst . Because I don 't usually buy books anymore : ### Output: I get them from the library , but I didn 't want to wait . That 's why I was at the bookstore today . And while I was there I saw this woman and for some reason I was instantly intrigued by her , drawn to her . She had long , straight , blonde hair , but not like bimbo bleach blonde , like natural blonde , you know . And she was waring a flowery sundress , at least I think it was flowery . She wore sandals . And had glasses , that were very interesting , kind of retro 50s but still contemporary , you know . She had a tattoo on her right shoulder I 'm pretty sure ; it looked like something with wings . I didn 't want to stare too intently for fear that she would be creeped out by me . Also , she had this sort of old / vintage - looking white purse , like something my mom would have carried
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: They say when you assume that you make an ass out of you and me . Kenton Mayson learned this lesson firsthand when he made assumptions about Autumn Freeman and the kind of woman she is based on what little information he had . What he finds out is she 's not only beautiful , but also smart , funny , a fighter , and exactly the kind of woman he wants to share his life with . Autumn made assumptions of her own about Kenton , and now he needs to prove her wrong in order to protect her and their future . I see you judging me . I know what you 're thinking . She has to be a slut ; she works at a strip club and takes off her clothes for money . Yes ! I work at a strip club , and you may think I 'm a whore for showing off my body , but this is a talent that has been forced down my throat since I ### Output: was a young child . Look pretty and smile . I put on a show for those who choose to watch . However long I 'm on stage , I 'm not even me . It 's what I imagine an out of body experience would be like - a performance , nothing more , nothing less . The people watching make assumptions about who they think I am , or cook up a story in their heads of whom they want me to be . I 'm just another beautiful face . Beautiful . I hate that fucking word . Who gives a crap if someone is attractive on the outside if they are dying inside ? My whole life has been about what I look like . I swear , the only reason my mother kept me was to have a real - life , living , breathing doll she could dress up and control , which is the exact reason why as soon as I became eighteen , I got as far away from her
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: 1 : Dedication This book is dedicated to those who are able to view the world from a different perspective . " If you just learn a single trick , Scout , you 'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks . You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it . " spoken by Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird - a novel by Harper Lee 4 : Take to the Skies by Reeve \| Athena swayed back and forth on the narrow perch inside her tiny cage as the train rumbled along the rickety old tracks . She could clearly hear the anxious , panicked cries of her fellow zoo mates around her and smell them as well , but a thick , dark cloth obscured her view of her surroundings . All Athena knew was that she wa ### Output: s going somewhere far away , because she had been in her minuscule enclosure for hours , and there had been no signs of stopping soon . Her eyes blinked slowly and sleepily , but she had been fighting her urge to nap for she knew it wise to stay aware of what was happening . However , nothing truly bad had happened yet , so she finally succumbed and tucked her head beneath her soft tawny wing , and drifted into a deep sleep . 5 : The elegant barn owl had just been dreaming of soaring through a clear blue sky , chasing prey , when she was immediately awakened by a loud screeching sound that pained her delicate ears . This was followed by a loud rumbling , and then Athena 's cage was being violently shaken and thrown about , causing the poor owl to crash into its side . A high - pitched scre
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Hello everyone , Thank you for your continual support and interest . We can 't believe that December is just around the corner . I have to say that the time has gone rather slow for me , ( Mom ) , but November just flew by . I guess I am getting used to living here now and have some sort of a routine . I have had some homesickness , but , it goes away thank heavens for that . We love hearing about what is going on in the good old USA . We pray for you and want you to know that we love you very much . A POT OF SOUP I have learned that a pot of soup can be the best medicine . Most weeks , I have made a pot of soup , or two . But , for some unknown reason I have felt impressed to make it in the largest pot I have . While I am making it I am thinking , what am I going to do with all of this so ### Output: up . The very next day I find out why . A call from the missionaries asking us if they can use our apartment for teaching . Of course we say yes . One morning a call to ask if it would be alright if the YSA could make Halloween party decorations in our apartment . Sure , no problem , and another pot of soup . It doesn 't take much time to eat a bowl of soup and it sure warms my heart to know that I am feeding them something nutritious . One day at a bus stop about ten , ten year olds got on the bus and sat right in front facing us , and to the side of us . They were beautiful kids . They all had knit hats on . They began to laugh and tease each other by taking each others hats off . They were busy talking and laughing when one of them spied our name tags . One young man whispered to his fr
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The idea for this blog came with the photos of Madame Shawshank of Penrith and a Sussex Griffin . She , the Snapper places a photo upon the page . An image of any kind . I , the Griffin then must respond with a tale of somesuch . We are still recovering and it is likely we shall be considerably more careful with nature in future . Oh of course we heard the ' Green ' message and there were all kinds of messages about how to ' save the planet ' , when what we meant was saving ourselves . But we had reckoned without one key ingredient . There were warnings in the weather . Extremes of hot and cold , floods that covered vast areas of countryside and even the Great Flood that made the river Thames flood its banks and made London look like a dirtier version of Venice . Still there were the usual ### Output: responses ; panic in the press , terror among the public and the sonorous tones of a government without a clue . But we did not learn . When the news came later of a tsunami that had struck New York and flooded that big city some people began to take notice of the scientists and some of the religious leaders who remarked as had been remarked before that ' God ' was angry . Nobody saw that somewhere in the cracks of our existence , where science and religion and even politics did not exist . Outside of the edges of our human awareness there was something we had overlooked in our self - styled superiority . So when that anger finally became manifest we were taken by surprise . Nothing we had could help us . Our fabulous technology was helpless . It began on what has become in our memory Gre
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The idea for this blog came with the photos of Madame Shawshank of Penrith and a Sussex Griffin . She , the Snapper places a photo upon the page . An image of any kind . I , the Griffin then must respond with a tale of somesuch . We are still recovering and it is likely we shall be considerably more careful with nature in future . Oh of course we heard the ' Green ' message and there were all kinds of messages about how to ' save the planet ' , when what we meant was saving ourselves . But we had reckoned without one key ingredient . There were warnings in the weather . Extremes of hot and cold , floods that covered vast areas of countryside and even the Great Flood that made the river Thames flood its banks and made London look like a dirtier version of Venice . Still there were the usual ### Output: responses ; panic in the press , terror among the public and the sonorous tones of a government without a clue . But we did not learn . When the news came later of a tsunami that had struck New York and flooded that big city some people began to take notice of the scientists and some of the religious leaders who remarked as had been remarked before that ' God ' was angry . Nobody saw that somewhere in the cracks of our existence , where science and religion and even politics did not exist . Outside of the edges of our human awareness there was something we had overlooked in our self - styled superiority . So when that anger finally became manifest we were taken by surprise . Nothing we had could help us . Our fabulous technology was helpless . It began on what has become in our memory Gre
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: " Why ? Why do I have to make daily journal entries ? " he complained again . " I don 't like to do it ; I 've never liked to do it . I don 't see how it does my any good . " " So , why don 't you go ask the master , instead of complaining to us ? " Jeremy said to Marcus . " The master is the one who gave us the discipline . Our job is to just lovingly hear one another 's confession . And you complain , more than confess , about this part of the master 's prescription every time we gather . Of course , I only say that in love , you know . " " Got it , " Marcus replied , with obvious belief in Jeremy 's sincerity . " And , you know , maybe I should . Maybe I should go ask the master why I need to do this . I really don 't see the point of it . Not at all . Not at all . " " I know that you h ### Output: ave given it to us as part of our spiritual discipline . But it is something with which I have always struggled . And , with all due respect , I don 't see the purpose of it for me . It may be good for the others , but I just don 't feel any good coming out of it . " " Oh , well … I don 't do it EVERY day . If I just understood why I was doing it , then maybe I 'd do better about keeping the discipline , " answered Marcus , with complete sincerity . Somewhat embarrassed now , Marcus tilted his head downward from their eye to eye contact , and somewhat mumbled , " Of course not , good father . It 's not that at all . It 's just that … . " " But there was this one week , where Ananias ' master told him early in the morning to go outside and fill a large jug of water - 20 gallons full - and t
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Grandfather d ' Lon tells me I must record the story of Clear Water before it 's lost forever . Even now the language of the Arapaho is fading . I know only a few words . My children know none . Time passes , and what we thought was eternal dwindles . There are no buffalo any more . Denver is spreading like sumac . The mountains seem unchanged , but white men have dammed rivers , and filled valleys with water . The white man 's roads and tracks have shortened journeys that once took a full season . I have seen the trains , horseless wagons , and flying machines . Soon the mountains will be only for those who choose to be among them . And soon the stories of the Arapaho will be lost to all but those who choose to know them . Many people believe that Clear Water Ranch is named for the mounta ### Output: in - fed creeks that flow through the land . This is not so . The ranch is named for my Grandmother , Clear Water , or Ciihkoowu Nec in the tongue of the Arapaho . I am not related to Clear Water in the sense that whites understand it . She is not my blood . But as the Arapaho understand it , my father was her husband , and that makes her my mother , even though we are not blood . Grandmother is the closest thing I can think of to call her . Grandfather d ' Lon is not my blood , but he is the loving Grandfather who made Clear Water Ranch , and so he is the Grandfather of all of us who inhabit it . He told my youngest son to write down the story of Clear Water as I tell it . Grandfather d ' Lon will have the story printed in a book . Grandfather d ' Lon thinks that will make the story last
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The thing about tragedies is that they can catch you by surprise . You get up in the morning and lazily eat breakfast as if you have all the time in the world . You pick out something to wear ( as if it mattered ) , and lackadaisically wander through the routine of a morning . You think your meaningless thoughts , none of them giving you any warning as to what 's about to come . All the while a tragedy , is secretly unfolding , sneaking up behind you , changing your life forever . My older brother Robert and I were extremely close . So close , even his wife was envious of our relationship . We could be in a crowd of friends , look across the room at each other , and nod , as if to say , " yeah … I get it , I am thinking the same thing as you . " As my psychiatrist , Dr . Teemis told me onc ### Output: e , my brother and I had to keep close to each other just to survive our childhood . We remained close even after I had gotten married at sixteen and was pregnant with my first - born son and he was a world away , fighting for his country and his life in Vietnam . He was eighteen - years - old . I tried not to let my worry consume me , but I kept a good luck charm for him on a shelf in my living room . Some days I would take it off the shelf and hold it in my hands , hoping it was working its magic and keeping him safe . But fear still gathered in my stomach and buzzed in my ears when I thought of him there , alone , without me to watch over him . When he got back to the states , he had seen too much , done too much , to ever regain the innocence of youth . He self - medicated with drugs ,
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: So I 'm female , late thirties and I 'm a travel counselor for a large tour company . We are pretty well known so I 'm not going to be dropping any names for anonymity sake . That being said what occurred here is 100 % for real , and yes I know everyone claims that on here but you 'll just have to take my word . So as a travel counselor ( fancy schmancy way of saying travel agent ) I book many cruises , both my company and the many cruise lines offer us in the industry what 's known as a fam trip , to familiarize us with what the cruise line offers . So I was approached two weeks before the holidays with the chance to take such a trip on a four night cruise to the Baja peninsula , it left the day after Christmas . Since my husband had a big guys trip with his BFF lined up I thought perfect ### Output: ! My in laws have been begging us to watch our seven year old daughter so she went to grandmas and I went on a free cruise . What could go wrong ? A little sand , surf , sun and while it 's winter 66 degree days are much warmer than the teens and below zeros we have up north . The flight was perfect , the embarking went as smooth as butter . The lovely balcony room I was put on was wonderful , so far so good right ? That night I 'm at dinner and a Indian man sits next to me , now this struck me as odd as there were several empty seats available . He strikes up conversation , introduces himself and says he 's traveling with his elderly parents , sister and her family . He 's 26 , works in communications and attended college in London . He seems nice , we have a lovely conversation and I th
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Dad has Alzheimer 's Posted on 06 / 18 / 2017 by Andy and Peggy This has been a hard post to write . I thought about different ways to tell it . I even thought I would not mention it and write about our latest remodeling or landscaping project . But I couldn 't do that . I couldn 't let Father 's Day go by without writing about my dad . Having a father with Alzheimer 's puts a different twist on Father 's Day . If you don 't get him a card or gift , he won 't know . If you call to wish him a happy day , he won 't remember as soon as you hang up . And during that call , he will ask you several times who you are and how old you are and tell you he is doing fine . Having a father with Alzheimer 's is hard . Dad was diagnosed in 2009 , at the age of 84 . We had suspected something was going on ### Output: for a few years before the official diagnosis . Every year , he slowly gets worse . He only recognizes my step - mother now , but lately , he has been forgetting who she is . He still lives at home and requires constant care . He cannot be left alone . When I visited him earlier this year , he talked about being in the war . He talked about shooting , being shot at and doing what he was told so he wouldn 't die . He talked about landing in Okinawa and seeing heads blown . He mentioned Iwo Jima . This was not a conversation . He was sitting in his chair , repeating over and over the same several sentences about the war . Many times he would ask himself a question about the war , and then answer it . The same questions and answers over and over . I was sitting across the room from him and w
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Dad has Alzheimer 's Posted on 06 / 18 / 2017 by Andy and Peggy This has been a hard post to write . I thought about different ways to tell it . I even thought I would not mention it and write about our latest remodeling or landscaping project . But I couldn 't do that . I couldn 't let Father 's Day go by without writing about my dad . Having a father with Alzheimer 's puts a different twist on Father 's Day . If you don 't get him a card or gift , he won 't know . If you call to wish him a happy day , he won 't remember as soon as you hang up . And during that call , he will ask you several times who you are and how old you are and tell you he is doing fine . Having a father with Alzheimer 's is hard . Dad was diagnosed in 2009 , at the age of 84 . We had suspected something was going on ### Output: for a few years before the official diagnosis . Every year , he slowly gets worse . He only recognizes my step - mother now , but lately , he has been forgetting who she is . He still lives at home and requires constant care . He cannot be left alone . When I visited him earlier this year , he talked about being in the war . He talked about shooting , being shot at and doing what he was told so he wouldn 't die . He talked about landing in Okinawa and seeing heads blown . He mentioned Iwo Jima . This was not a conversation . He was sitting in his chair , repeating over and over the same several sentences about the war . Many times he would ask himself a question about the war , and then answer it . The same questions and answers over and over . I was sitting across the room from him and w
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Getting back to work put me back in a routine . . . and back into the interaction with other people . It 's good . I 'm smiling a lot and laughing . . . I think it helps that I was a smiler and laugher in the first place , so it comes naturally . Although , I think it may be working against me now also . I almost feel like I 'm acting now . . . but not consciencely . Last week was hard at work , but it was still new . This week I 'm back in the routine and actually felt like maybe I was finally getting to the " new normal " that I keep reading about . There 's actually times where I feel okay . . . and I wonder if those times that other mom 's talk about would come to me . Where they just feel down and start crying for no reason . Well , those times have . The last two days . . . I feel li ### Output: ke I 'm usually okay in the morning at work . I think up until maybe two or three o ' clock . Once that time comes around , I feel a sudden sadness . It 's hard to explain , but an emptiness and heaviness within myself . I felt like this last night and came home and cried a bit to Eric . But today it it even harder . I had been feeling that dreading feeling in me again . . . feeling that heaviness and emptiness that I 'm missing something . . . which just leads to a deeper sadness . But I was still going through the day and still working . I was at my lead , Scarlett 's , desk talking to her and she made a small joke , but I was already on the verge of crying at that point . It wasn 't the joke that made me cry at all . I really wasn 't . . . but all of a sudden , tears just formed and wou
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The daughter of educators , Sarah Frances Smith was born in Illinois and graduated from Wellesley College , Class of 1918 . She came to Stamford in 1926 as Director of Adult Education in the Stamford public schools , a position she held for 34 years . Before coming to Stamford she was employed as an organizer at the Bureau of Adult Education , New York State Department of Education at Albany and then as Director of Americanization for the Haverhill , Massachusetts , public schools . Under her direction , the Stamford adult education program expanded from a few night classes in English and citizenship to become an extensive program with classes designed to meet the needs and interests of a broad cross section of adult residents of Stamford . As a pioneer in education for foreign - born adul ### Output: ts , a field that developed rapidly immediately after the First World War , Sarah Smith both drew on the work of others and developed her own educational methods . She believed that education is the key to a better life for everyone , regardless of age , sex , or background . Why did I select Adult Education ? It wasn 't always Adult Education . It started with Immigrant Education . As a career , there is a good deal of background that brought me to it , sort of prepared the way . I graduated from Wellesley in 1918 , during World War I . My major was literature . I had Katherine Lee Bates , who called me " Sarah Frances . " She was a wonderful teacher . I majored in social work . I had done some volunteer work for the Troy Times who had a camp for the underprivileged children , and during
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Conner turned away and activated on his com link . He spoke authoritatively as soon as Artha 's face appeared , " Artha come home now this is an emergency . " " Why what is going on ? " Artha asked not knowing why his father was so mad Conner Replied to his son " I will tell you when you get hear . " then he went offline . Kitt looked at Artha , and said " Wow he sounds in a hurry ! " Artha turned to her " Yeah I wonder what 's up ? Come on boy lets go " he said to Beau so they turn around and head back to Penn stables . When they got back Parmon and Lance were standing there and Conner was pacing the floor Artha walked to his dad and said " What 's going on what is the big emergency ? " Conner looked at his son and was relived to see him but he still was tense said to him " Come on it 's ### Output: not safe to talk here . " He said putting his hand on Artha 's shoulder and looking around making sure that there was nobody else there and then headed to beau stall and hit the switch that opened the door to the temple And they all went down then he start 's to explain to them " I got word that someone is heading to the old temple of Lezmark , there is an ancient mask of Zorgon it has all the draconium colors . " He said waving his arm and the vide screen came down showing a picture of the mask " All the colors ? " Everyone said at the same time , the dragon 's hade surprised looked on there face as well , " Even gold ? " Artha asked not knowing that there was something that powerful existed and that hade gold draconium since you don 't see gold gear around very often , " Yes , it is very
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: I know I shouldn 't have gone back . In my defence , at the time I had convinced myself that my childhood had been ordinary . But the past is like flypaper for the living , so when I returned to Pearce for my dad 's funeral I stayed longer , and remembered more , than I meant to . I like to blame Phil , my brother . He should have been at the funeral , but the antagonism that existed between him and my dad was so great that even dad 's death couldn 't dissolve it . So I had to make all the arrangements , and afterward I was sole executor for the will , and then I was solely responsible for clearing out the old man 's house for sale . This last was a task that deepened my grief and opened gates to the past I thought had been locked decades before . Truth be told , the real cause of what hap ### Output: pened after the funeral wasn 't my dad 's death or my brother 's intransigence . It was a single black - and - white photograph of five boys that I found in a drawer , hidden under a pile of yellowing papers . Five boys , all between ten and thirteen years of age , standing on a hillside and looking as if the future was already theirs . Around us rolled the brown humps of Mt Taylor 's northeast flank , our territory , stretching from the big water tank around to Torrens , the next suburb . We were the Mt Taylor Patrol , assigned by ourselves to protect our turf from villains . Villains in this case were mostly other kids , whom we called the Koga Ninja . Every incursion by the Koga Ninja had to be met swiftly and sternly , with bad language mainly , but if that didn 't work then with a hai
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Our Mangalore Trip 2013 It 's been nearly a year and a half since we made our big announcement about moving to Canada , and all you 've heard since is that we 're going but nothing concrete about when . Well , it 's been a long , drawn - out affair . You can read these links if you want to catch up on the details . The Canadian embassy strike last year really slowed things down for us . The processing time for visas has gone up to 12 months , meaning we have to wait until the end of March before we can start questioning more delays . We are confident that the visas will come - they have no reason to deny them - it is just a question of when they will come . We spent Christmas and New Year 's in Mangalore this year . We figured it would be a good idea to spend as much time as we can with Gl ### Output: ad 's mom before we leave , since we don 't know when we will see her again . One of Glad 's sisters and her family were also there at the time , so our kids got to spend some quality time with a few cousins . We drove from Chennai to Mangalore , dividing the trip over two days with a stopover in Bangalore . This was our first long drive with the kids . Along the way there were good roads , bad roads , large highways , tiny back roads , and one long drive over a hilly area with what looked like the worst road in the history of roads . This particular road is windy , and to make matters worse , it was so broken up in most parts that we had to go super slow . Parts would be level and then drop into deep ditches , the road would narrow and widen often . It looked like it was full of craters ,
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Will I update this blog soon ? Probably not . Some day , though , it will come back with a huge amount of glory . With glory coming out its ears like wax or eardrum juice . " Commercial , you mean . There 's only one , Gabe . " Well , it starts out with me sitting in a chair looking directly into the camera . I 'm wearing the kickass silk suit I got in Itaewon . You remember the one ? No , the one with pinstripes . No , the black one . Yeah , that one . Well , I start by asking the audience a question , ' Are you tired of being the last one picked in gym class ' - No , I don 't think it 's too infantile . People respond to that : most of my clients - okay , fine , potential clients - will really understand what it 's like to be picked last in gym class . " Anyway , I continue : ' My name i ### Output: s John Smith ' - Yeah , I decided on Smith . Nitkowski is just too much , you know ? Nobody respects that name . - ' My name is John Smith and I 'm here to help you . ' I point directly at the camera on ' you ' and then swivel in my chair to camera two - I know , two cameras is fancy . " I finish with : ' Let John Smith help you to become the man you ' - No , I don 't think so … It 's not like I need to say ' woman ' or anything like that . What woman is going to go see John Smith speak ? Well , yes , I am quite handsome . - Oh shut up . I 'm not saying it . Okay fine , dashing - but I just can 't see it happening . - ' Let John Smith help you to become the man you want to be . Come to my seminar and renounce the old you and apotheosize the new you ' - It 's a word . No , it is . I looked
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Playing the boy meant that you had to be on top . We used to practice kissing in 3rd grade , taking turns playing the boy . Lara would put a pillow between our faces so that we never touched , but we still felt each other the same . Lara had long , bony legs - the kind that knocked knees and left a gap between her thighs . When we were young , she was too skinny , but she had a body that unfolded kindly , growing and shifting in all of the right places . All the boys liked Lara . In high school , she always had a boyfriend . I liked the stories she told me about them ; there were flowers , and love letters , and riding around in cars . She was always in love , then , not in love , then in love again . Lara liked to give advice . She liked to tell me what blue jeans to buy and the best trea ### Output: tment for acne , " It 's Noxema . I know . It 's cheap , but it 's been around for like , hundreds of years , and works . In like 10 years , you won 't get zits anymore , your skin is going to get really dry and scaly and if you don 't want to look like an old hag , you 're going to need something more expensive . And I don 't mean Oil of Olay either . My dad told me that stuff is shit . " Lara 's father was a famous plastic surgeon in the city . Most people loved him and Lara said he did the best work in the state : " I am probably going to have him do work on me some day , " she told me . She looked in the mirror and pulled her shirt close to her breasts , then she laughed , " Do you think that would be weird ? " In high school , Lara 's grandmother took her to Europe . She sent me a car
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Yesterday , we went to the eye doctor and got Grig some new glasses . His were broken by Kevin as well , and unlike mine , they were not repairable . We brought mine as well and they were able to put a new screw in and straighten them out ( mostly ) . They still have a mildly broken hinge , but I can wear them on my face , so they 're almost as good as new . Grig selected some pretty interesting glasses . I don 't want to spoil anything , but we 'll show you a picture as soon as they come in . I think you 'll be pretty amazed ! ; ) They told me that my teeth looked pretty good , though I have some mild cavities that need to be filled in . I 've always really liked the dentist for some reason . Perhaps it was because I came from a large family and it was nice to have one on one attention wi ### Output: th someone focusing on me for a while . Who knows ? They also told me that they could tell I wasn 't from Utah because my teeth looked good . I 'm not sure what that says about Utah teeth . There was a television set up on the ceiling so I watched people build tree - houses while they cleaned my teeth . My aunt and uncle were nice enough to take Kevin while I had my appointment . He loves playing with his cousins . He thinks it 's pretty great . I 've spent a lot of the day editing my grandpa 's life history as well . We 're almost finished with it ! That 's pretty exciting , and it has been awesome to read . I 'm excited for the rest of my family to be able to read it too . Yesterday , we had an exciting day . In the morning we had pest control come to spray for cockroaches ( we haven 't
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Occasionally I find myself sifting through the archives here , usually looking for details about something I 've since forgotten . Like , when did Squeakles start putting two words together ? Because as big a deal as that was at the time ( and it wasn 't that long ago , really ) , I already can 't quite put my finger on it . As I search around on the site , I usually find myself getting lost for about twenty minutes , taking a stroll down memory lane . That usually prompts me to think about taking up blogging again . And that 's as far as it gets , until the next time I look something up . I feel like writing here again would require that I catch you up on what 's happening since I left off , but since I don 't have time to write an autobiography , here 's the quick summary , with the impo ### Output: rtant details to be filled in as we go . I 've changed jobs and I 'm currently working as a professor at a big university . My job is primarily teaching oriented and I think it 's going to be perfect for me , though it 's been a tough start - prepping for a huge course load with no previous experience or materials o speak of . I basically didn 't sleep at all last year . tough for Squeakles . More on that later maybe , as details are needed , but in the immediate , I was really apprehensive about how he would do at the the new school . Well , I am completely blown away - the Weeble is also doing great . She talks all the time and has a really persistent but loving personality . She 's the littlest one among us but refuses let herself get overlooked ! In other news , we just had a hurricane
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: The events leading up to that night started six years earlier when I met Marci at a friends wedding . I was sitting at the same table as Marci at the reception and a mutual friend introduced us . Marci made an immediate impression on me . Marci is five feet ten inches tall and weighs about 125 pounds . At the time she had long dark brown hair that hung in curls around her shoulders . She has large , very expressive brown eyes . Her body was beautifully sculpted with high , firm breasts nicely rounded buttocks and shapely legs . Over all she was a very attractive woman . At the time we did nothing more than exchange hellos . It wasn 't until several days later that we spoke again . It was the following Wednesday night that I ran into Marci in a local watering hole . She just happened to be ### Output: walking past me so I said hello . She looked at me for a minute then remembered meeting me at the wedding . She stopped to talk to me and I bought her a drink and the next thing I knew it was closing time and I was giving Marci a ride home . From that point on I spent every moment I could with her . Although we had not had sex yet , Marci said that she wanted to wait till she was married , I knew I was in love with her after just a couple of months . When I told her that I loved her she didn 't respond right away and finally said that she liked me very much but wasn 't sure if she loved me . For a while after that it seemed that she wanted to stop seeing me . She didn 't stop seeing me completely but she told me she would only go out with me once a week . That wasn 't enough for me . I had
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: When I started this blog my daughter had a best friend named Dora . Dora lived with us . Dora was invisible . When I told my daughter , I was going to start a blog of stories for her , she asked me to write stories for Dora . So we called this blog Stories for Dora . Now , that my daughter has outgrown Dora , she has reclaimed her blog and we have changed the name to Stories for Aurella . So here are stories for my daughter and you . Daphne Olsen loved dolls . Her favorite doll was a soft and squishy baby doll named Dahlia . Daphne always called her Baby . From the moment Daphne laid eyes on Dahlia when she got her as a second birthday present from Mommy and Daddy , Dahlia was her Baby and her favorite toy in the world . Baby ate with her . Baby played with her . Baby took baths with her . ### Output: Baby slept with her . Everywhere that Daphne went , Baby would be there too . Once when they were sleeping over Grandma 's Baby accidentally got left behind . Daphne cried and cried . Daddy tried to comfort her . " It 's okay . " he said sweetly patting her on the back . Daphne pulled herself out of Mommy 's arms . " Don 't want Mommy ! Want Baby ! " she said breaking out into a fresh flood of tears . Daddy ended up having to go all the way home and get Baby . It took him an hour to go home and come back . The whole time he was gone , Daphne cried . When he came back and handed her Baby , she happily snuggled the doll in her arms . Then and only then would she settle down and go to sleep . Another time , Baby got lost at the mall . Daphne was sleeping in the stroller , and she woke up whe
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Leave a reply Dr . Gabriela Nola , Gabe to everyone , hadn 't been in town long . Kenton McCade was looking for a partner in his practice , and she was hoping to fill the spot . A nice small town beat the last hospital job she 'd just recently quit - 90 hours a week with a shorthanded staff . She just wanted normal , and the voice in her head to stop already about opening the box and wearing the item inside . Dalton McCade knew when he heard the dragon 's voice that he was next on the list , and ready or not his mate was coming . According to the dragon , she was already here and had refused to put the combs in her hair . But as always , danger followed the jewelry , and Gabe was no exception . The mysterious stranger would have all the pieces for his own collection , and didn 't care who ### Output: he had to kill to get them . Emma Gentry felt like she was losing her mind . From the time she had picked up the pretty ring to examine it , she 'd been hearing a voice in her head . When she ran from the demolished building , she 'd slipped the ring on her finger so that she wouldn 't drop it , now she couldn 't get it off . She was in dire need of medical attention , but the voice wouldn 't let her stop to get help . There were others looking for the ring and would kill her for it . Emma was on the run . Kenton McCade was the doctor in the family . When found Emma in his office treating a badly infected wound on her leg , he had to help her . The infection had spread and she was near death . Kenton and his brothers were dragon shifters born without the ability to shift into their other h
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Leave a reply Dr . Gabriela Nola , Gabe to everyone , hadn 't been in town long . Kenton McCade was looking for a partner in his practice , and she was hoping to fill the spot . A nice small town beat the last hospital job she 'd just recently quit - 90 hours a week with a shorthanded staff . She just wanted normal , and the voice in her head to stop already about opening the box and wearing the item inside . Dalton McCade knew when he heard the dragon 's voice that he was next on the list , and ready or not his mate was coming . According to the dragon , she was already here and had refused to put the combs in her hair . But as always , danger followed the jewelry , and Gabe was no exception . The mysterious stranger would have all the pieces for his own collection , and didn 't care who ### Output: he had to kill to get them . Emma Gentry felt like she was losing her mind . From the time she had picked up the pretty ring to examine it , she 'd been hearing a voice in her head . When she ran from the demolished building , she 'd slipped the ring on her finger so that she wouldn 't drop it , now she couldn 't get it off . She was in dire need of medical attention , but the voice wouldn 't let her stop to get help . There were others looking for the ring and would kill her for it . Emma was on the run . Kenton McCade was the doctor in the family . When found Emma in his office treating a badly infected wound on her leg , he had to help her . The infection had spread and she was near death . Kenton and his brothers were dragon shifters born without the ability to shift into their other h
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Leave a reply Dr . Gabriela Nola , Gabe to everyone , hadn 't been in town long . Kenton McCade was looking for a partner in his practice , and she was hoping to fill the spot . A nice small town beat the last hospital job she 'd just recently quit - 90 hours a week with a shorthanded staff . She just wanted normal , and the voice in her head to stop already about opening the box and wearing the item inside . Dalton McCade knew when he heard the dragon 's voice that he was next on the list , and ready or not his mate was coming . According to the dragon , she was already here and had refused to put the combs in her hair . But as always , danger followed the jewelry , and Gabe was no exception . The mysterious stranger would have all the pieces for his own collection , and didn 't care who ### Output: he had to kill to get them . Emma Gentry felt like she was losing her mind . From the time she had picked up the pretty ring to examine it , she 'd been hearing a voice in her head . When she ran from the demolished building , she 'd slipped the ring on her finger so that she wouldn 't drop it , now she couldn 't get it off . She was in dire need of medical attention , but the voice wouldn 't let her stop to get help . There were others looking for the ring and would kill her for it . Emma was on the run . Kenton McCade was the doctor in the family . When found Emma in his office treating a badly infected wound on her leg , he had to help her . The infection had spread and she was near death . Kenton and his brothers were dragon shifters born without the ability to shift into their other h
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Leave a reply Dr . Gabriela Nola , Gabe to everyone , hadn 't been in town long . Kenton McCade was looking for a partner in his practice , and she was hoping to fill the spot . A nice small town beat the last hospital job she 'd just recently quit - 90 hours a week with a shorthanded staff . She just wanted normal , and the voice in her head to stop already about opening the box and wearing the item inside . Dalton McCade knew when he heard the dragon 's voice that he was next on the list , and ready or not his mate was coming . According to the dragon , she was already here and had refused to put the combs in her hair . But as always , danger followed the jewelry , and Gabe was no exception . The mysterious stranger would have all the pieces for his own collection , and didn 't care who ### Output: he had to kill to get them . Emma Gentry felt like she was losing her mind . From the time she had picked up the pretty ring to examine it , she 'd been hearing a voice in her head . When she ran from the demolished building , she 'd slipped the ring on her finger so that she wouldn 't drop it , now she couldn 't get it off . She was in dire need of medical attention , but the voice wouldn 't let her stop to get help . There were others looking for the ring and would kill her for it . Emma was on the run . Kenton McCade was the doctor in the family . When found Emma in his office treating a badly infected wound on her leg , he had to help her . The infection had spread and she was near death . Kenton and his brothers were dragon shifters born without the ability to shift into their other h
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: Leave a reply Dr . Gabriela Nola , Gabe to everyone , hadn 't been in town long . Kenton McCade was looking for a partner in his practice , and she was hoping to fill the spot . A nice small town beat the last hospital job she 'd just recently quit - 90 hours a week with a shorthanded staff . She just wanted normal , and the voice in her head to stop already about opening the box and wearing the item inside . Dalton McCade knew when he heard the dragon 's voice that he was next on the list , and ready or not his mate was coming . According to the dragon , she was already here and had refused to put the combs in her hair . But as always , danger followed the jewelry , and Gabe was no exception . The mysterious stranger would have all the pieces for his own collection , and didn 't care who ### Output: he had to kill to get them . Emma Gentry felt like she was losing her mind . From the time she had picked up the pretty ring to examine it , she 'd been hearing a voice in her head . When she ran from the demolished building , she 'd slipped the ring on her finger so that she wouldn 't drop it , now she couldn 't get it off . She was in dire need of medical attention , but the voice wouldn 't let her stop to get help . There were others looking for the ring and would kill her for it . Emma was on the run . Kenton McCade was the doctor in the family . When found Emma in his office treating a badly infected wound on her leg , he had to help her . The infection had spread and she was near death . Kenton and his brothers were dragon shifters born without the ability to shift into their other h
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: It was a slightly cloudy day . I was crossing a quiet street at the edge of a suburban neighborhood . But it was like , at first , I had been washed out into this street , as if a flood or an ocean 's wave had carried me here . Even walking across to the sidewalk , I may have felt as if I 'd been carried by an undertow . On the other side of the sidewalk from the street was a small lawn . The lawn ended in a steep drop , an artificial cut through the hillside to let a large road pass through . Concrete walls ran up most of the slope . There must also have been a concrete paved walking path for pedestrians to get down the slope . I headed down . About halfway up the slope there was a concrete paved area with a long picnic table . I sat at the table , at the head end closest to where I stood ### Output: . The table top was completely covered by a gigantic bag . The bag was white and may have been made out of canvas - - or a really thin material , like tissue paper ! The bag seemed to be completely stuffed with stuff . At the table sat two men . Both men belonged to a certain church . One man sat at the opposite head end of the table from me . He was a new pastor at the church . Another man sat on the long side of the table , just about in the center . He had been at the church for a long time . The pastor was planning on going out and trying to convert people in the neighborhood . He had given the other man some of his plans . But now the man asked a weird , long question regarding the pastor 's approach and the character of the people in this neighborhood , who were largely illiterate o
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: It was a slightly cloudy day . I was crossing a quiet street at the edge of a suburban neighborhood . But it was like , at first , I had been washed out into this street , as if a flood or an ocean 's wave had carried me here . Even walking across to the sidewalk , I may have felt as if I 'd been carried by an undertow . On the other side of the sidewalk from the street was a small lawn . The lawn ended in a steep drop , an artificial cut through the hillside to let a large road pass through . Concrete walls ran up most of the slope . There must also have been a concrete paved walking path for pedestrians to get down the slope . I headed down . About halfway up the slope there was a concrete paved area with a long picnic table . I sat at the table , at the head end closest to where I stood ### Output: . The table top was completely covered by a gigantic bag . The bag was white and may have been made out of canvas - - or a really thin material , like tissue paper ! The bag seemed to be completely stuffed with stuff . At the table sat two men . Both men belonged to a certain church . One man sat at the opposite head end of the table from me . He was a new pastor at the church . Another man sat on the long side of the table , just about in the center . He had been at the church for a long time . The pastor was planning on going out and trying to convert people in the neighborhood . He had given the other man some of his plans . But now the man asked a weird , long question regarding the pastor 's approach and the character of the people in this neighborhood , who were largely illiterate o
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: It has been 4 months since my first cycle of bipolar disorder . The fact that I 've made it this far through 20 cycles is a complete miracle , especially remembering that , at one point , 6 more weeks until a doctor 's appointment seemed impossible . It has been 4 months since my world literally crumbled beneath my feet and everything stopped . I stopped cleaning , doing preschool with my daughter , leaving love notes for my husband , going visiting teaching , doing consistent scripture study , attending the temple , exercising , doing my hair , reading , trying to make new meals , blogging about my family , doing any hobbies , etc . It all stopped . I really didn 't know how I would pick myself up and move forward , and I wasn 't sure that I even wanted to try to move forward again . I di ### Output: dn 't do much for two months except blog on here and try to keep up with taking care of my family . Blogging was the only thing I could hold onto that wouldn 't slip out of my grasp . I knew I needed to start doing other things , but I couldn 't . It all hurt too much and served as a painful reminder that my life had changed dramatically , that I had changed . At the beginning of January , with the painful memories of the past couple of months behind me , I decided to start trying again . It started with going to the temple . I was completely terrified and overwhelmed about going . Something about driving 2 hours , sitting with my daughter in a random place surrounded by random people , then going into the temple and completing all of the necessary steps , followed by driving another 2 hou
### Task: Continue the story ### Input: I awoke early , but it took me a little while to get out of bed . I managed to do one or two things , then attempted to go back to sleep . It didn 't work . I didn 't want to do anything . My heart hurt . It was because of Carl . I still hadn 't heard from him . My texts were not even going through . I kept getting the " failed to send " message every time I tried . I had made plans to meet some friends for a walk in the woods and a picnic . It was less than a mile over flat ground , so I wouldn 't exactly call it a hike . I just could not pull myself out of my funk . And even stranger still , I didn 't want to talk about it . To be fair , they are used to me being upset over guys or just being depressed in general . They inquired , but didn 't really seem interested in my answer . So I di ### Output: dn 't speak much and they didn 't press the issue . They made plans to go out for ice cream afterwards . I told them that I 'd pass and drove home . I tried to nap . I tried very hard to get tired , but I just couldn 't . I begged God , the Universe , whoever to let me sleep , to give me insights as I slept , and to allow me to awake in less emotional pain . Well , I did sleep . I felt like I was given wisdom as I slept , but forgot it when I awoke . I awoke with the same amount of emotional pain . Here 's the weird thing . Even though I 'm feeling all of this pain over Carl , I still have some sort of odd faith in him . Like I know we 're going to be together eventually and that this pain is only temporary . It didn 't help the pain for today , however . I forced myself to get up , to coo

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