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I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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