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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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California
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Discarded
Divorced
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Nobody
Everybody
Stills
Remarried
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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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