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I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
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Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Bicycle
Fish
Fishes
Stills
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