“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”

— Margaret Atwood , book Cat's Eye

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Canadian writer 1939

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