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Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Soon
Child
Comes
Young
Enough
Children
Never

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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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That which yields is not always weak.
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