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It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.
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Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.
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It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
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I met a travler from an ancient land.
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My brain said no. But my heart!
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