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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Grateful
Startled
Grace
Juice
Takes
Breeze
Others
Electricity
Place
Embarrassed
Light
Isolated
Puts
Eventually

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