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A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.

Keri Hulme

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Keri Hulme
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 9
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Christchurch
New Zealand
Family
Hole
Left
Surely
Holes
Away
Large
Also
Meaning
Heart
Existence
Gone
Whether
Bane

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