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Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Human
Pathetic
Humans
Lifetime
Feel
Spend
Sometimes
Walk
Feels
Walks
Talk
Slimy
Stuff
Poisoned
Better
Silently

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