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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Radical
Commit
Loving
Lifetime
Completely
Thing

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