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Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Comes
Outstretched
Shows
Rescue
Hands
Pull
Nothing
Decide
Take
Deserve
Sometimes
Ready
Hand
Maybe
Ashore

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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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