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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
Without
Perhaps
Tempered
Even
Small
Anonymous
Men
Help
Dump
Water
Drives
Helping
Puts
Away
Ill
Body
Bodies
Dumps
Able
Car
Quarry

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