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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Tedium
Parenting
Drama
Broken
High
Littles
Little
Spurts

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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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