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Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.
Anna Quindlen
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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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Prosecutors insist they are mounting a thorough investigation, which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine an interminable one is disgraceful.
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I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.
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