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No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

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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Behavior
Culture
Often
Mother
America
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Mothers

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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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