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The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.
Lydia Millet
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Lydia Millet
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
Novelist
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Pierced
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