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The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Earth
Baptized
Back
Wash
Life
Grief
Gave
Tears
Feet
Away
Hydrated
Didn
Cleansed

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