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Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul

Diana Gabaldon

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Diana Gabaldon
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 11
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Williams
Arizona
Diana J. Gabaldon Perez
Sassenach
Face
Faces
Soul
Heart
Love

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You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach, he said quietly. So long as you love me.
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D'ye think I don't know? he asked softly. It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.
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I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I don't know how long we sat there on the dusty floor, crying in each others arms with the longing of twenty years spilling down our faces.
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