First   "A rush, a gasp, as your breath is stolen"
Second   "'Men love sluts,' my best friend's cousin croons,"
Third   "oh manic panic curly cues, how I miss you"
Fourth   "You look onto me with the innocence of a baby. "
Fifth   "..and roots, you must poison the roots."
Sixth   "..in those sixteen seconds were his salad days"

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What is an "interbang?"

An interbang is a punctuation mark. (i.e., the graphic located in the top left corner of this page). It is an exclamation point/ question mark hybrid used at the end of commonly blurted rhetorical statements, such as "How’d she do that?", or "What the f&*k?!" The more common spelling of this word is interrobang.

From Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary:

interrobang: a punctuation mark designed for use especially at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question.

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