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You are always someones favorite unfolding story

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Unfolding
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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