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The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
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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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic.
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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.
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It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.
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Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
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