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Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Word
Tense
Bigs
Nothingness
Everyone
Mess
Comes
Forgiving
Without
Using
Must
Magic
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Joy
Started

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