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Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Feels
Caused
Always
Seeds
Like
Cross
Crosses
Ugly
Weakness
Unlovable
Often
Jealousy
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Seed

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