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The constant happiness is curiosity.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 94
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.
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