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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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University Teacher
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
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We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
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Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger
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My hatred gives me strength.
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