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Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering the clocks stop and go and stop.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Love
Fans
Drains
Like
Blood
Electricity
Takes
Lights
Stop
Sugar
Water
Slowly
House
Clock
Flickering
Light
Weight
Clocks
Much
Losing
Slowing

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