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This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Hold
Learn
Hands
Cannot
Enough
Clutch
Long
Aptitude
Would
Goodbye
Time
Emptiness

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