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What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

Alexandra Bracken

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Scottsdale
Arizona
Thinking
Everything
Handle
Life
Right
Side
Even
Takes
Heart
Sides
Trying
Turns
Good
Doesn
Time
Seems
Think
Anything
Throw

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