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People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
Lionel Shriver
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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
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Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.
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Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.
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