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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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butterflies were wind energy made visible.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.
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Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
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