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I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

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Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
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She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.
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It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.
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My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.
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