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Police entered the home on a welfare check and noticed blood smeared on the walls and furniture scattered across the living room.
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Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Not a recycling, but a continuation—a long communion with the dead, the living, and the yet-to-be born.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
In the first song on this more than 29-minute playlist, JJ and his friends don skeleton costumes and create a silly dance in the living room.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
Two dogs came into the living room to inspect the uproar, mutts from the reservation.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Not a recycling, but a continuation—a long communion with the dead, the living, and the yet-to-be born.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
In the first song on this more than 29-minute playlist, JJ and his friends don skeleton costumes and create a silly dance in the living room.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
Two dogs came into the living room to inspect the uproar, mutts from the reservation.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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“The living.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20living. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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