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Did he die well? No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
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Science Fiction Writer
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the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
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Nobody
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My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared.
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. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.
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They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.
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Don't worry he tells me tenderly. It doesn't matter who you've been, who you are, or who you become. I'm with you every step of the way.
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A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.
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How can you miss someone who’s right beside you?
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The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.
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If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed
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But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.
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My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.
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His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.
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With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
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There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.
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Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.
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More than most, I know the pain of surviving.
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