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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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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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without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
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