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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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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Remember
Something
Connect
Way
Drawn
Invisible
Air
Lines
Felt
Someone

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