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Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
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But I wanted to tell you before I left how completely abjectly sorry I am for all the pain I have caused you and that if I die you were the one true love of my life. By the time you read this I will be gone but please know I am still always at your side.... Yours forever Henery William Schoonmaker
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I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.
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The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.
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It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.
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As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.
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What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.
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In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.
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Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
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She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.
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It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.
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So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.
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So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.
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That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.
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They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
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Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.
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Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.
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Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.
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A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.
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Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.
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