"Mary sat on the back steps of Mrs. ... And so begins "The Shining Houses," with two very different women conversing in an apparently normal and civilized way in a brand new, orderly, clean subdivision. ... As the students begin to explore these ordinary people, they begin to understand the tension and anger that exist in this new subdivision of shiny, new homes, where disorder, eccentricity, and non-conformity will not be tolerated by the upwardly mobile, good "people who win." ...

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Trying to shove each other off the road, we were racing for about a couple of minutes, when all of a sudden their car started banging me on the side of my new car that I just got for my birthday I hardly went down town and I didn"t know there was a gas station around the next turn the other car kept banging me on the side so I took a sharp turn and slammed right in to the gas pump, the gas station when up in flames, the next day I went to court and the judge told me " you have 3 weeks community service" , I was upset with the judges penalty because the judge let the other driver of the car g...

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