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Falling into Place: deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.

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Brian Andreas
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 17
Artist
Painter
Writer
Iowa City
Iowa
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Everything
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