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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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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Chatting
Might
Sights
Afternoon
Worried
Luck
Sight
Spend
Wish

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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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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
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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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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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My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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