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The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.
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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
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I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
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