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Meg! I love you! I want to marry you! That's weird, she said without stopping. Only six weeks ago, you were telling me all about how Lucy broke your heart. I was wrong. Lucy broke my brain.

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Telling
Meg
Week
Lucy
Brain
Stopping
Wrong
Marry
Without
Weeks
Heart
Broke
Love
Weird
Six

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