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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Town
Leaves
Towns
Back
Never
Monkey
Circus
Monkeys
Recovery

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