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Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur we choose to love we do not choose to cease loving.

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Lauren Groff
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 23
Novelist
Writer
Cooperstown
New York
Loving
Choose
Love
Amor
Cease

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