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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Dream
Live
Life
Sweet
Dreams

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