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You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Knowing
Rattled
Place
Bath
Change
Baths
Care
Sink
Even
Hot
World
Dirty
Profound
Worth

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