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People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
Aircraft Pilot
Author
Diarist
Glider Pilot
Poet
Writer
Englewood
New Jersey
Anne Lindbergh
Anne Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindbergh
Taken
Lots
Understanding
Granted
Times
Treated
Left
Complete
Anything
Havens
Mean
Haven
Carelessly
People
Understood
Sympathy
Completely
Destructive

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