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I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
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Texas
United States
Waiting
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Heartbreak
Right
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Pulse
Great
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