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This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Confusing
Bodies
Deeply
Business
Body
Issued
Disappointing
Messy

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