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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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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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But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.
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Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.
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…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
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Mama said, Dreams are different to real life but important too.
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