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the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Finished
Shapes
Mark
Color
Business
Left
Never
Unfinished
Love
Shape

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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.
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In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.
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I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.
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