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There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 17
Blogger
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
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Writer
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Pennsylvania
Rabbits
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Desperate
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Heart
Thing
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