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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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University Teacher
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Cursed
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Merely
Ends
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Without
Life
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