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You have to keep your audience in your mind if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

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Paullina Simons
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
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St. Petersburg
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Rethink
Nobody
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Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.
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But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and even America, and crossed the street for Tatiana Metanova.
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They had no past. They had no future. They just were.
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We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.
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I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.
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I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.
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I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.
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Thank you, she whispered, for keeping yourself alive, soldier. You're welcome, he whispered back.
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Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life
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This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.
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You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die. -Tatiana and Alexander
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Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.
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Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana
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Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.
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Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.
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We can’t forget that I owe you my life.” She gazed at him. “We can’t forget that I belong to you.” “I like that sound of that,” Alexander said, hugging her tighter.
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You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.
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Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask: what do you love? ... I know who I am, she thought, taking his hand and turning to the altar. I am Tatiana. And I believe in, and hope for, and love Alexander for life.
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And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.
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And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.
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