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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Thinking
Life
People
Besides
Accept
Short
Accepting
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