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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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