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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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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Always
Never
Love
Circles
Complete
Finished
Memories
Order

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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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. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.
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I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
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