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"Instead of holding my wife’s hand in the delivery room, I was crouched on a detention center floor, whispering through a crackling phone line as she labored alone," Khalil wrote.

But then sometimes I found that they were not that live or crackling because I had already thought of something cute the night before or whatever.

The Fried Chicken Club salad doesn’t mess around either — crispy fried chicken crackling with every bite, tangled in mixed greens, smoky shards of bacon and bold blue cheese crumbles.

With crackling pastoral language and thematic Lynchian undertones, “Swamplandia!” probed the growing tension in Russell’s home state of Florida between an endangered fecund wilderness and encroaching development.

Florence says she heard "bullets crackling" outside the prison from 23:00 onwards, and escaping prisoners were being killed by police outside.