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I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Place
Back
Pinball
Mind
Slowly
Machine
Machines
Learning
Crazy
Bring

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