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People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
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None
People
Answer
Answers
Wrong
Sense
Better
Trying
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Not just when its easy. All the time.
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It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.
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