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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Appreciate
Friends
Family
Nothing
Make
Like
Strangers
Stranger

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