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One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Vivid
Turn
Imagination
Turns
Back
Never

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