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You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.
Audrey Niffenegger
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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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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