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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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