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My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Eyes
Frantic
Eye
Unlike
Mother
Brown
Around
Keeps
Find
Son
Always
Large
Like
Flower
Quite
Hummingbird

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