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It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Knew
Waiting
Dark
Curled
Strong
Stretching
Part
Risen
Feels
Sunshine
Like
Stands

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We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
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I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.
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