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What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Essayist
Novelist
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University Teacher
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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