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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
Frustrating
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Resemblances
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