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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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