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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Everyone
Manual
Without
Manuals
Good
Owner
Life
Owners
Manage
Humor
Grace
Modicum
Whatever
Flailing

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