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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Hope
Forth
Shiny
Happens
Warm
Blossoms
Seems
Expectations
Floats
Sometimes
Image
Expectation
Always
Happen
Japanese
Wriggling
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Almost
Opens
Spastic
Community
Onto
Flimsy
Faith
Bright
Pinned

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