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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.

Ann Voskamp

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