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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes: Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.
         

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.


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