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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: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Everything
Take
Exactly
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I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.
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without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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