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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Unimportant
Forgiveness
Finally
Becomes
Means
Back
Mean

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