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I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Asking
Validate
Worth
Weighing
Morning
Bathroom
Age
Waking
Wish
Scale
Sense
Scales
Every
Thrown
Like
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Dick

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