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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
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Rooms
Swallow
Mind
Emotion
Pushed
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Face
Throat
Thinking
Though
Somehow
Faces
Continue
Littles
Tried
Knot
Back
Unless
Swallowing
Little
Room
Knots

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