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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Heart
Electrical
Reaches
Moves
Slowly
Speed
Pain
Moving
Glacier
Truth
Glaciers

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I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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