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Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Moment
Moments
Cannot
Everything
Abstracts
Real
Expand
Time
Measured
Hold
Lying

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