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Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
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University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
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