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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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LA
California
Returned
Easily
Offers
Kind
Always
Love
Life
Stupidly

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