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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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