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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Body
Different
Coloring
Way
Wore
Would
Shapes
Time
Hair
Knew
Keep
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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