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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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