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

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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Anymore
Thinking
Miracle
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Happen
Happens
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