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I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.

Amanda Hocking

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Amanda Hocking
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 12
Novelist
Writer
Rochester
Minnesota
Sometimes
Trying
Make
Guess
Life
Somebody
Choices
Learn
Else
Live

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