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You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

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Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
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South Australia
Australia
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... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
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Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
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... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
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Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.
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It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.
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. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
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Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.
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A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven
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The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.
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And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassandra opened her eyes, she realized she was crying. She wasn't sad, though, these were the tears of being found, of having come home after a long time away.
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