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The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 17
Blogger
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Spangler
Pennsylvania
Wilderness
Wanting
Woods
Find
Way

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