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Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Unforgiving
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Summer
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