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I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.
Tana French
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Tana French
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 10
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Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.
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Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.
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Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.
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