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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
Heartbreak
Track
Time
Missile
Love
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Cruise
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