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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Injuries
Successes
Injury
Balance
Power
Much

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