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When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
Finish
Somehow
Hold
Alive
Hands
Book
Gaze

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