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I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

Laura Whitcomb

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Laura Whitcomb
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 19
Novelist
Pasadena
California
Eye
Gazed
Take
Mirages
Real
Wanderers
Like
Oasis
Desert
Couldn
Afraid
Eyes
Wanderer

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