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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – November 26, 2020 (permalink)

"What will we do now?"
"Wait for the next step and try to prevent that."
From Dark Shadows episode 1129.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – November 23, 2020 (permalink)

"Where there is spirit, there is agony."  From Dark Shadows episode 796.
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#occult #agony #dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – November 17, 2020 (permalink)

It's true -- wishing someone luck is tricky, because Lady Luck has two faces, one of them being fateful.  From Dark Shadows episode 220.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – November 13, 2020 (permalink)

That moment when someone's anecdote begins straying from the sensationalism: "What about the disembodied head?"  From Dark Shadows episode 1129.
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#severed head #dark shadows
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It's Really Happening – November 11, 2020 (permalink)

We've all had nights like this -- attacked by the severed hand that once touched the face of the Sphinx, and feeling utterly disfigured.  "There isn't a full moon, but it's happening."  From Dark Shadows episode 793.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – November 7, 2020 (permalink)

"Time I start finding some of the lost world that we can't understand, or, or even see."  A favorite line from Dark Shadows episode 1122.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – November 6, 2020 (permalink)

"You are simply taking what's happened and making up a story to explain it."  From Dark Shadows episode 999.
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! – November 2, 2020 (permalink)

Q: "Must things always happen the way they happened the first time?"
A: "Well, they have been happening that way.  That is what is so frightening."
From Dark Shadows episode 1103.
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#time travel #future #dark shadows
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Strange Dreams – October 30, 2020 (permalink)

From Dark Shadows episode 816.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dark shadows #only a dream
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – October 29, 2020 (permalink)

"Our world was ruined a long time ago."  From Dark Shadows episode 1111.
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#end of the world #dark shadows
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This May Surprise You – October 27, 2020 (permalink)

The crying, talking mannequins obsessed with mortality and reincarnation don't appear until episode 1096 of Dark Shadows.
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#mannequin #dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – October 22, 2020 (permalink)

Our sentiments exactly: "I can or I cannot; I wish to or I don't wish to."  From Dark Shadows episode 641.
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#dark shadows #equivocal
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... – October 15, 2020 (permalink)

Someone ought to write a book about how to find a staircase in a book.  One thing I'm hoping to learn: are all staircases in books spiral ones?  From Dark Shadows episode 1085.
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Something, Defined – October 14, 2020 (permalink)

In this case, "something something" means a gypsy curse that kills every person you love.  From Dark Shadows episode 797.
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Precursors – October 6, 2020 (permalink)

Here's a precursor to the band name Tears for Fears.  "Go ahead and cry my dearest, it's good for you.  It can be a relief from fear."  From Dark Shadows episode 852.
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#fear #crying #tears #dark shadows #tears for fears
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – October 4, 2020 (permalink)

"If only we knew what was supposed to happen, we could at least try to prevent it."  From Dark Shadows episode 1075.
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#divination #tomorrow comes early #dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – October 1, 2020 (permalink)

"'There's no telling what's going to happen, is there?'  'No, not even the computers can fugure that out yet.'"  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.
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#prediction #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense – September 26, 2020 (permalink)

Just another sleepless, seemingly eternal night from Dark Shadows, episode 289.  The captions read, "[Vicki:] Like going to sleep and waking up in the morning to see the sunshine.  [Carolyn:] What a wonderful idea.  Let me know if it works."
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#insomnia #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness – September 18, 2020 (permalink)

This moment from Dark Shadows episode 719 has nothing to do with the mark of the bunny from Atlantic Christian's 1988 yearbook.  But when you've seen enough episodes of Dark Shadows, everything seems to relate.
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#vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny #dark shadows #mark
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – September 17, 2020 (permalink)

"Sometimes from the purest motives one is forced to follow the most devious routes."  From Dark Shadows episode 800. 
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