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...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

Marisha Pessl

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Marisha Pessl
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 26
Writer
Clarkston
Michigan
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Aisle
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Restless
Thought
Searching
Longing
America
Lonely
Million
Aisles
Couldn
Floated
Millions
Moody

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