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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.

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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Dies
Future
Thought
Right
Always
Alive

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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
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I'm not good at small talk I'm not good at big talk and medium talk just doesn't come up.
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A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.
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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
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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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