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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.
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Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.
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Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.
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