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I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Understand
Without
Much
Doomed
Entirely
God

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