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How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

Anne Rice

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
Love
Child
Lean
Upon
Irresistible
Spirit
Funeral
Must
Hide
Children
Clothes
Steely
Heart
Strength
Indomitable
Much
Dead
Bruised
Men
Beauty
Weariness

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