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She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Nothing
Empty
Feel
Broken
Feels
Present
Heart
Knew
Senselessly
Much
Middle
Outline
Like
Felt
Outlines
Didn
Absent
Past
Cried

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