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I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

Joanne Harris

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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Rivers
Exhausts
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Swimming
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Whoever
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Currents
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