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I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.
Audrey Niffenegger
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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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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I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
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