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Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.
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