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***A KEY WORD*** Imagined

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Sydney
NSW
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Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.
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Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.
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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered “Shhh, I’m here, its alright.” After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness.
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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss.
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Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.
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My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
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Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
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Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.
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