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This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Think
Beings
Thinking
Deep
World
Inside
People
Call
Help
Helping
Hopelessness
Human
Forth
Humans
Supposed

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