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All the world's a stage we're going through.
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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Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
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She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, There you go. -- Willing
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I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.
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