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I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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New York City
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Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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