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as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

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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
Littles
Ones
Drawn
Little
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Stick
Nothing
Loses
Witness
Love
Dies
Sticks
Water
Patterns
Words
Endless
Watchers
Understand
Tiny
Witnesses
Left
Flow
Meaningless

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