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There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
Friendship
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Moment
Moments
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Always
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