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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Better
Separate
Wells
Healing
Reopen
Well
Harder
Fused
Sometimes
Pieces
Incompetent
Thing
Wasn
Healed
Always
Open
Hole
Life
Left
Thick
Best
Holes

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