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I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Thing
Think
Thinking
Unbearable
Agree
Hope

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