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Tim O'Brien Quotes: Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.
         

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.


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Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.
         



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