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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
Suspects
Marriage
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Every
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Amateur
Parenthood
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