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The Red Queen

by Victoria Aveyard (Goodreads Author)

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The Giver (Giver, #1)

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A Widow for One Year

by John Irving (Goodreads Author)

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Allison’s Notes & Highlights

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Summer Again (St Caroline #1) by Julia Gabriel

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“Sometimes traditions outlive their usefulness.”

The Stranger Beside Me

by Ann Rule

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Appalachian Tales

by Deanna Edens

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Allison’s Quotes

“Though soulmates aren't looking for you, they will find you.”
― Kevin Ansbro

tags: companion, confidante, friend, kindred-soul, kindred-spirit, life-partners, lover, partners, soul-mates, soulmates

72 likes

“History was being rewritten by the minute. All of his childhood heroes were now being viewed as villains, their lives judged in hindsight by the current fad of political correctness.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

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“There's this piece of contemporary mythology that the forties are the best time of your life. A load of cock, so far as I'm concerned.”
― Penelope Lively, Passing On

tags: aging, best-time-of-your-life, forties, life, middle-age

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“It’s times like this…. when it’s over a year later and I’m still crying over you that I want to turn to you and say: See…. This is why I asked you never to kiss me.”
― Ranata Suzuki

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“To come to the door and know that she would find no one: to see a house completely empty. It was like coming to her tomb while she was still alive.”
― Iain Crichton Smith, Consider the Lilies

tags: abandonment, empty-nest, loneliness

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