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But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses
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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
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LA
California
Jane Graves Smiley
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I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.
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