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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Connections
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Singular
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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