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Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured to the point where you suddenly think, nonsense. I am fine just the way I am.

Anna Quindlen

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