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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Remembrance
Remembering
Begin
Memories
Forget
Moments
Remember
Done
Forgetting

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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.
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He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.
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I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.
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I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.
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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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