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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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