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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Even
Flattened
Sharpest
Sooner
Later
Became
Pain

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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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