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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Never
Hopeless
Basically
Hope
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Everything

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