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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: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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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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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?
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she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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