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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
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the United States of America
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.
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