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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
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Glens Falls
New York
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