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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
Ally Condie
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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
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Science Fiction Writer
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Cedar City
Utah
Righteous
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There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
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