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Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.
Kim Edwards
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Kim Edwards
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 4
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In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.
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It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
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You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.
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Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.
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After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.
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Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
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Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
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He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.
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