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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
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