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You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever felt that you really knew her and that it was what you knew that you loved, and if you remember what it was you once knew, why is it so crazy to retain that love still?

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Elliot Perlman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: May 7
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Melbourne
Australia
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