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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Kindness
Unless
Comes
Nothing
World
Momentous
Shoulders

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