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Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.
Marisha Pessl
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Marisha Pessl
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 26
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Michigan
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