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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Since
Child
Geisha
Taken
Bridge
Children
Bridges
Every
Closer
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Steps
Bring

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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.
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I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
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