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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
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Glens Falls
New York
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