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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Contain
Quite
Future
Thing
Never

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