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And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Columnist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Everything
Right
Sometimes
Something
Scary
Simple
Happens

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