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Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.

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You know, right often, the body is the best thing we've got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

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Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

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Allan Gurganus

Allan Gurganus

Born: June 11, 1947 (age 77)
Bio: Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work, which includes Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and Local Souls, is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina.
Known for:
  1. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1989)
  2. Local Souls (2013)
  3. Plays Well with Others (1997)
  4. The Practical Heart: Four Novellas (1993)
  5. White People (1991)

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