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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: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
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LA
California
Love
Life
Stupidly
Returned
Easily
Offers
Kind
Always

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