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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Emergencies
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Thing
Every
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Emergency

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