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I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Take
Nowhere
Right
Ride
Never
River
Would
Code
Blink
Like
Rivers
Bugs
Stand
Sequence
Dark
Lightning
Else
Hundreds

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