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There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
Artist
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Science Fiction Writer
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South Haven
Michigan
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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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I feel that I an everything to her.
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I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
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I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.
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And Clare, always Clare.
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...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him - Clare
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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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Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare
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He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.
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