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Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable worry about being absent or fraudulent.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Write
Absent
Writing
Sentimental
Things
Vulnerability
Center
Straight
Toward
Unavailable
Emotional
Fraudulent
Worry
Appearing

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