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I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Love
Rocks
Life
Paper
Fear
Else
Scissors
Stills
Contest
Still
Contests
Going
Anger
Always
Rock

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