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butterflies were wind energy made visible.

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Made
Butterflies
Butterfly
Visible
Wind
Energy

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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
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I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.
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