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If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Suicidal
Kill
Known
Actually
Become
Wry

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