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All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Acts
Defense
Conscious
Dying
Small
Simple
Living
Every
Sudden

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