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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Jagged
Throat
Miss
Missing
Thing
Much

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Because love, love never finishes.
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.
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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.
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It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
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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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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
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I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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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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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.
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