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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Helping
Lifted
Mother
Psychics
Around
Load
Whole
Bitter
Great
Carry
Much
Spent
Life
Died
Trunks
Like
Easier
Psychic

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