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I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
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Realize
Levels
Realizing
Attention
Deficit
Someone
Disorder
Soul
Available
Deeper

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When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.
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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
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