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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.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Life
Suffering
Show
Pain
Gladly
Sense
Pains
Shows
Fools
Didn
Suffer
Great
Fool
Always
Taking

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