"If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen."
"Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami."
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Source: Linda Barnes (2015). “Further Adventures of Carlotta Carlyle: Three Mystery Stories”, p.14, Open Road Media
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