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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Wherever
Life
Carry
Somewhere
Looking
Else
Another
Thing
Always

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