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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy
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Gail Sheehy
Age: 83 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 27
Died: 2020
Died: August 24
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Gail Henion Sheehy
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
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Democratization is not democracy it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.
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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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