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For example, if I were a smoker, you'd lift a match to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-garrison/lately-i-can-t-help-wanting-us-to-be-like-other-people-for-example-if/) [Deborah Garrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-garrison/) > [“ Father, R.I.P., Sums Me Up at Twenty-Three She has no head for politics, craves good jewelry, trusts too readily, marries too early. Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-garrison/father-r-i-p-sums-me-up-at-twenty-three-she-has-no-head-for-politics/) [Deborah Garrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-garrison/) > [“It was not like everyone had said. 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His forthright gaze, his expert hands: I'd lie on the couch with my eyes closed just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-garrison/used-to-be-he-was-my-heart-s-desire-his-forthright-gaze-his-expert/) [Deborah Garrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-garrison/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/say-wife/deborah-garrison/#itemlist", "name": "1 Say Wife Quotes By Deborah Garrison", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For you she learned to wear a short black slip and red lipstick, how to order a glass of red wine and finish it. She learned to reach out as if to touch your arm and then not touch it, changing the subject. Didn't you think, she'd begin, or Weren't you sorry. . . . To call your best friends by their schoolboy names and give them kisses good-bye, to look away when they say Your wife ! 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