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You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Endured
Sorry
Lived
Pain
Live
Believe

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