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I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.

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Glen Duncan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 17
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Glen A. Duncan
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Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.
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