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Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.

Walter Kirn

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Genuine
Kissing
Devotions
Looked
Kisses
Perhaps
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Closely
People
Embarrassed
Devotion
Rarely

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