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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Open
Receive
Asks
Ahead
Panting
Back
Hardest
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Live
Wide
Runner
Time
Regret
Regrets
Lived
Runners
Present
Terrified
Worry
Wherever

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