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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Sometimes
Floats
Expectation
Opens
Onto
Forth
Expectations
Wriggling
Image
Pinned
Hope
Shiny

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