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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
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Hurts
Death
Shoulders
Ends
Block
Around
Everywhere
Right
Street
Life
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People
Streets

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