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Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

Walter Kirn

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
Writer
Akron
Ohio
World
Truly
Inside
Droning
Hear
Suffocating
Lost
Heartbeat
Persons
Bubble
Person
Bubbles
Enough
Touch
Sometimes
Private

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