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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
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Minneapolis
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