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No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Childless
Wishes
Wants
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Woman
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Mother
Vigilantly

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