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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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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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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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Try a little tenderness.
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A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.
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I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
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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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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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