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Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
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Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Tricks
Seemed
Magic
Love
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