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1  I'm talking about the ducks, I said.
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2  He did all the talking for the two of them.
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3  I certainly felt like talking to her on the phone.
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4  He just kept talking about Life being a game and all.
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5  What I did, I started talking, sort of out loud, to Allie.
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6  Besides, I wasn't crazy about talking to old Mrs. Hayes on the phone.
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7  Anyway, she was somebody you always felt like talking to on the phone.
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8  He started talking in this very monotonous voice, and picking at all his pimples.
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9  Anyway, Allie heard us talking about it, and he wanted to go, and I wouldn't let him.
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10  I mean if you're good at writing compositions and somebody starts talking about commas.
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11  I'd double-dated with that bastard a couple of times, and I know what I'm talking about.
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12  I mean if you tell old Phoebe something, she knows exactly what the hell you're talking about.
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13  To tell you the truth, it was sort of embarrassing, in a way, to be talking about Romeo and Juliet with her.
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14  I mean when she was talking and she got excited about something, her mouth sort of went in about fifty directions, her lips and all.
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15  Finally, the blonde one got up to dance with me, because you could tell I was really talking to her, and we walked out to the dance floor.
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16  All he did was keep talking in this very monotonous voice about some babe he was supposed to have had sexual intercourse with the summer before.
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17  He stuck around till around dinnertime, talking about all the guys at Pencey that he hated their guts, and squeezing this big pimple on his chin.
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