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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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Last
Every
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Amateur
Parenthood
Suspect
Suspects
Marriage

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