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first-lines
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October 20, 2015First Lines of Great Novels That Describe My First Year Teaching Middle School Literature
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September 24, 2009Entries from the Index of First Lines in Frederick Seidel’s Poems 1959-2009 Taken as a True/False Quiz
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May 13, 2002Rejected First Lines for My Personal Ad
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January 14, 2002First Lines to Books I Won’t Write
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July 7, 2000Index of First Lines
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