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She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.

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Matthew Quick
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
Camden
New Jersey
Looks
Faces
Different
Happy
Everyone
Watched
Makes
Somehow
Doesn
Wear
Others
Angry
Else
Trust
Cannot
Face

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