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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Together
Even
Clingy
People
Screwed
Scared
Broken
Seem
Less
Everyone

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