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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Lovemaking
Anticipation
Thrill
Excitement
Equal
Almost

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I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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