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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.
Jojo Moyes
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Jojo Moyes
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 4
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Pauline Sara Jo Moyes
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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