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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Life
Throwing
Feeling
Comes
Feelings
Away
Part
Certain
Good
Rapture

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