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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Thinking
Though
Somehow
Faces
Continue
Littles
Tried
Knot
Back
Unless
Swallowing
Little
Room
Knots
Made
Rooms
Swallow
Mind
Emotion
Pushed
Think
Face
Throat

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