1. "A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion."
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, The Orchard
2. "Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place."
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, The Orchard
3. "An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others."
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, The Orchard
4. "Long and slender in her tailored pencil skirt, Grace Lyndon stood on her executive desk, balancing in her fine designer heels, reaching for a burned-out"
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, Love a la Carte
5. "I'm just a girl Jake" "I think you're that, and much, much more." Another long moment. Lily found herself returning his smile, finding her own sense of knowing. And suddenly she felt at ease, a sense of mysterious calm."
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa
6. "A moment in the sky, forever in the heart."
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa
7. "The world was such a different place, but there were the same stars, the same kinds of yearnings beneath them."
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa
8. "There are no ordinary lives."
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa
9. "Rain pounded on the Packard, reverberating through the car and into her bones. The wipers going full speed, banging on the steel frame of the windshield like a metronome out of control, she still could not see more than a few feet in front of her."
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa
10. "Inside the car, Lily stared at the tree right in front of her as bucketfuls of wet Georgia red clay, the color of blood, just sprayed up from her car, dripped slowly down the trunk."
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Jeffrey Stepakoff, Fireworks Over Toccoa