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Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.

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
Romantic
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Gaunt
Imagine
Bereaved
Though
Chocolates
Water
Efficiently
May
Grieve
Grieving
Chocolate

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