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After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Realms
Bitter
Coffee
Dangerous
Flavor
Forbidden
Realm

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Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.
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