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We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Twenties
Almost
Many
Things
Storage
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Twenty
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