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It is never about how good your voice is it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
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Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
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Sing
Courage
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I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
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The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.
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Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.
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As a writer, you should have a sticky soul the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.
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But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
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You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.
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The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.
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The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.
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