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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Eternal
Present
Pain
Else
Everything
Obliterates

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