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There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
People
Taking
Bits
Existentially
Community
Safer
Family
Feeding
Making
Isolated
Keep
Deeply
Feels
Tiny
World
Loving

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