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Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Love
Life
Cry
Except
Tears
Hope
Everything
Nothing
Sometimes

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