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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Unnatural
Hospitals
Sleeping
Seemed
Sleep
Alone
Done
Pitiful
Something
Contagious

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