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It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Time
Shadow
Think
Spend
Thinking
Waiting
Lazarus
Everyone
Tomb
Makes
Tombs
Come
Shadows
Without
Changing
Must
Miracle

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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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