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I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Moments
Exact
Supposed
Wonder
Moment
Hope

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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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