When they approach me they see only my surroundings,themselves, or figments of their imagination - indeed,everything and anything except me."

VOA: special.2010.09.19

"Let me get back to you on that. Oh,oh,oh -- in college, the boyfriend who absolutely forgot Valentine's Day.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

They were big,rough fellows. They had chosen me as the only 'Dutchman' -- as they called me -- to make them laugh.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

I thought the heart must burst. And now a new fear seized me -- the sound would be heard by a neighbor!

VOA: special.2009.05.16

"Probably,for a one-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar- a-year employee it would cost me in the range of ten to fifteen thousand dollars."

VOA: special.2011.05.13

It allowed me to leave the island and build myself separate from the long-long shadow of my twin.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

she said, "and get me twenty-five cents' worth of tea and ten cents' worth of sugar cakes.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

The opposite will be true. I will have a lot of money to buy clothes and my sister will get hand-me-downs from me.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

"Well,I hope you answered them right." "Oh,I did. When he asked me your height, I said five-foot-ten."

VOA: special.2009.10.11

As I watched the fierce-looking creatures, I failed to hear twenty full-grown Martians coming from behind me.

VOA: special.2011.07.16

The words of the oath are in the Constitution - all except "so help me God."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is.

VOA: special.2011.04.17

So I asked them to let me move with Helen into a small one-room house nearby.

VOA: special.2009.11.08