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Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

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Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Berri
South Australia
Australia
Endings
Photographs
Photograph
Knew
Future
Force
People
Weighed

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