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Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Approving
Rotten
Pleasures
Small
Pleasure
Kids
Trying
Spoiling

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