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I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.

Carol Emshwiller

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Carol Emshwiller
Age: 97 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 12
Died: 2019
Died: February 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Best
Doggedly
Wells
Crumbs
Well
Afar
Must
Anyway
Kind
Grateful
Love
Certainly
Shall
Nature

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