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When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Wrong
Bigs
Born
Everything
Trying
Going
Starts
Something
Lovely
Protect

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