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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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