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In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.

Anita Shreve

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Anita Shreve
Age: 71 †
Born: 1946
Born: October 7
Died: 2018
Died: March 29
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
Rocks
Learns
Along
Pulled
Walk
Continually
Walks
Boots
Takes
Sand
Discreetly
Desire
Silver
Licks
Left
Fortune
Stockings
Time
Sea
Pink

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