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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Change
Cry
Tides
Take
Embrace
Uplifting
Time
Possibility
Hopeful
Life
Move
Crying
High
Surely
Hope
Glorious
Tilt
Moving
Basic
Debris
Another
Instinct
Tide

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