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The cure might be worse than the problem

Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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South Haven
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And Clare, always Clare.
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When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.
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My family isn't posh they're musicians.
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we both smile and we are conspirators.
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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
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That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
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I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say I'm sorry until it is as meaningless air.
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Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
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I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.
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Chaos is more freedom in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
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