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Childhood is such a delicate tissue what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that will circle back again and again, and hurt them in small ways for the rest of their lives.

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Lauren Groff
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 23
Novelist
Writer
Cooperstown
New York
Morning
Dull
Make
Pain
Somewhere
Lives
Childhood
Snag
Littles
Ones
Tissue
Back
Rest
Tissues
Ways
Circle
Little
Hurt
Delicate
Done
Small
Circles
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