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Light is good company, when alone I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Found
Yellow
Light
Comfort
Warmest
Become
Took
Bulb
Kind
Room
Babysitter
Good
Rooms
Bulbs
Alone
Lamp
Company
Radiant
Living
Lamps

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