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Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
Author
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New York City
New York
Left
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Unwatched
Boil
Wounds
Heal
Water

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Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. You lost this, he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. I'm shedding.
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Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
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Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.
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But then again maybe I will is nicer. It has a future in it.
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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.
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He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.
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I met a travler from an ancient land.
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You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
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It's a tragic fact to die in an accident
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They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
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It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.
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Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?
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On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.
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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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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.
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The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, Who are you, my little one? And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.
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Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
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It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.
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Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
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I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.
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