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

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