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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: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Geisha
Taken
Bridge
Children
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Closer

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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.
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