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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Quarters
Hundred
Feet
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Less
Consideration
Two
Foot
Body
Bones
Transmission
Human
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Automobile
Humans
Instruments
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Complicated

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