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I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Probably
Next
Mother
Good
Paranoiac
Compulsive
Repressed
Obsessive

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