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Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Every
Path
Sadly
Love
Woman
Unhealthy
Difficult
Monkeys
Mother
Wire
True
Mothers
Without
Raise
Withering
Many
Raises
Equipped
Children
Judgment
Monkey

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