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There is no God, there is only what you want.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch

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Never apologize. Never explain.
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The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
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That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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