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Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

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Marisha Pessl
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 26
Writer
Clarkston
Michigan
Little
Guilt
Russians
Things
Bread
Woe
Modern
Utter
Days
Split
Yore
Times
Splits
Awfulness
Feelings
Anguish
Wretchedness
Power
Affliction
Sadly
Littles
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Butter

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