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I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: What next? instead of Why me? . . . Whenever I am willing to ask What is necessary next? I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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