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Connecticut is in my blood.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Connecticut
Blood

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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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