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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Read
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Feelings
Seed
Hands
Seeds
Women
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Heart
Hand
Misty
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Resting
Looking
January
Eye
Jewelry

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