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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Defects
Miracle
Relationship
Getting
Character
Like
Pouring

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