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I am the drying meadow you the unspoken apology he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.

Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Apology
Drying
Firsts
Quiet
Gestures
Meadow
First
Band
Genes
Unspoken
Enough
Baby
Meadows
Make
Inside
Bands
Amen
Love
Full
Creates
Rubber
Life
Sleep
Son
Gesture
Mother
Distance
Rope
Fluctuating
Live
Structure

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