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When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Agree
Bigger
Part
Mind
Something
Fixated
Wired
Saved
Minds

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