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But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Might
Eighteen
Enough
Spinning
Sometimes
Weather
Life
Quiet
Zigzag
Like
Close
Wheeler
Within
Tornado
Family
Vortex
Woman
Tornadoes

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