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Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Body
Bodies
Dumps
Able
Car
Quarry
Without
Perhaps
Tempered
Even
Small
Anonymous
Men
Help
Dump
Water
Drives
Helping
Puts
Away
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