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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Columnist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Ones
Impossible
Past
Sometimes
Children
Fruits
Make
Finest
Fruit
Regret

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