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I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Often
Repeats
Become
Stick
Seems
Sticks
Even
Disappear
Way
Air
Things
Ones
Slippery
Life
Seem
Repeat
Memories
Thin

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