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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Life
Stand
Floss
Morning
Gum
Dies
Breakfast
Age
Teeth
Doe
Drive
Persons
Car
Person
Healthy
Even
Stupid
Gums

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