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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.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Writer
LA
California
Hands
Loneliness
Wanted
Kissing
Much
Air
Scooping
Would
Hand
Reckless
Time
Future
Drowning
Like
Water
Pulling
Another
Abundance
Place
Kiss

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