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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
Flattened
Sharpest
Sooner
Later
Became
Pain
Even

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