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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Going
Warm
Always
Meaning
World
Wind
People
Stay
Dangerous
Stand
Helping
Banged
Another
Badly

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