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The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
Amy Hempel
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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
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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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