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What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
Audrey Niffenegger
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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Everything seems simple until you think about it.
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Chaos is more freedom in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
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I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
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You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
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And Clare, always Clare.
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