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We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

We Are Not Ourselves

by Matthew Thomas
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  • Aug 19, 2014, 640 pages
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  • Jun 2015, 640 pages
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He wasn't a stiff, and he wasn't a weakling either. What was the word for it? Sensitive was the only one that came to mind, amazing as that was to consider; he was a sensitive man. He soaked up whatever you gave him.

His name was Leary, as Irish as anything, but she decided she could marry him anyway.

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