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Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Everything
Coming
Breathing
Even
Leave
Apart
Something
Probably
Painful
Way
Practice
Solutions
People
Though
Loving
Difficult
Destiny
Problem
Sweet
Distracting
Together
Laughing
Solution

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