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But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
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