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You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

Anthony Doerr

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Anthony Doerr
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 27
Author Of Novels
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Waits
Bury
Childhood
Waiting
Back
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Life

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