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Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

Amy Dickinson

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Amy Dickinson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 6
Columnist
Freeville
New York
Complicated
Short
Choices
Women
Sometimes
Make
Life
People
Baffling

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