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The Good Life Elsewhere

by Vladimir Lorchenkov (Goodreads Author)

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This Is Not Miami

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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

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“For me, fiction is when research meets compassion; I believe this is often why facts don't change people's minds, but stories do.”
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“Maybe there's no such thing as soulmates. Maybe there are only people who trust each other enough to begin something without being assured of the end.”
― Kate Goldbeck, You, Again

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“It's dusk almost completely night, and right there is the ocean. The stars begin to dot the sky. I like to think there's a giant holding the earth in one hand, a needle in his other hand, poking the sky there, there, and there-”
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