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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
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Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
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Life

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