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She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Life
Dumped
Ground
Felt
Together
Littles
Shards
Back
Mosaic
Little
Mosaics
Way
Assembling

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