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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
Love
Dying
Stop
Anyone
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
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School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.
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