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It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Flies
Permission
Control
Without
Mean
Different
Way
Life
Directions

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the past only had whatever power you gave it life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.
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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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