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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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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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His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.
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