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It’s like, you know, it doesn’t matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it’ll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

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J.A. Redmerski
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 25
Novelist
Little Rock
Arkansas
Way
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Never
Doesn
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Time
Firsts
Detail
Like
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Naturally
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Happened
Trying
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