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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
Life
Attachments
Attachment
Surely
Avoid
Loss
Though
Fear

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