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Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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