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It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.

Jessica Sorensen

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Jessica Sorensen
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 2
Novelist
Hurt
Hurts
Understand
Shoulders
Death
Block
Ends
Everywhere
Around
Street
Right
Close
Life
People
Streets

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