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It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Scales
Comfort
Trouble
Breadth
World
Reminded
Anguish
Troubles
Mighty
Scale

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