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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Things
Behind
Voices
People
Hair
Experienced
Went
Makeup
Least
Fixed
Water
Hearing
Voice
Sight
Stuff
Clothes
Unreachable
Left
Behinds
Normally

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