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What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Life
Takes
Lying
Idea
Childhoods
Certain
Palace
Ideas
Deaths
Great
Palaces
Never
Supposed
Time
Childhood

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