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Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.

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Marisha Pessl
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 26
Writer
Clarkston
Michigan
Boxes
Strive
Dark
Around
Everything
Chamber
Heart
Wound
Thing
Contains
Every
Wounds

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