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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
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LA
California
Divorced
Directly
Gets
Nobody
Everybody
Stills
Remarried
Still
Storyline
Even
Discarded

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