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One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
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Anne Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow
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