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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Makes
Firewood
Fallen
Tree
Trouble
Everybody

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