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Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Imagination
Children
Loving
Exercise

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I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
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I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
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