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Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Smaller
Ice
Glass
Glasses
Faster
Things
Cubs
Like
Dissolving
Disappeared

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