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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.

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

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I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.
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We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
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I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
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