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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Thought
Thing
Always
Love
Smashed
Deeper
Loved
Hurt

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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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