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The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Rooms
Cracks
Future
Touching
Show
Ruins
Lives
Rare
Belie
Moments
Shining
Bleakness
Shows
Pride
Brokenness
Objects
Clutter
Wall
Photos

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