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I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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