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Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

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Amanda Hocking
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 12
Novelist
Writer
Rochester
Minnesota
Life
Deeply
Series
Loved
Seems
Sometimes
Things
Never

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