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Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.
Frances Mayes
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Frances Mayes
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 4
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Fitzgerald
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