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Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.

Amy Dickinson

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Amy Dickinson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 6
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New York
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