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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
Amy Hempel
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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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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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