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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
Aimee Bender
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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
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the United States of America
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