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Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

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Amy Bloom
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 18
Film Producer
Novelist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Social Worker
Writer
Great Neck
Long Island
Happened
Dark
Everyone
Tell
Underside
Two
Tarry
Smear
Stuck
Memories

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Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.
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You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
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