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We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Humans
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Constellations
Lights
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